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TRANSCRIPT D: SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989

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MR. IVAN LAWRENCE:

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the supremacy of the Hong Kong courts in legal matters would be an excellent confidence-building matter, so surely the the supremacy of the Hong Kong Legislative Assembly would be a very important confidence-building

measure?

At present, as proposed, the Chief Executive

who, of course, is appointed by the Central People's

Government and is accountable to the Central People's

Government, can dissolve the Legislative Council if there

is a deadlock.

Would it not be better and more reassuring to the

in the circumstances in which

people of Hong Kong if,

there was an irreconciliable deadlock,

it is the

Legislative Assembly that could dissolve the Chief

Executive so that the ultimate accountability was to the

Hong Kong people having elected their Assembly

democratically? Is this not an area in which the

People's Republic might now in the new climate be prepared

tu rethink and perhaps concede a point?

SIR DAVID WILSON;

On the Chief Executive, he is appointed by Peking

but

I am just using the Draft Basic Law at the moment

election in Hong Kong, after a process of selection or

he is not just appointed in abstract,

Kong process,

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It is after a Hong