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TRANSCRIPT D: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG 12 JUNE 1989

MR.

BOVER WELLS:

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1 have been rather alarmed by some of the

even

implications of your remarks in Some of the answers in the

last few minutes, Sir David. For example, you implied

that if in fact Hong Kong and Britain proceed to establish

a Legislature with 50% directly elected or 75% or

100% by 1997, somehow this will endanger British-Chinese

in 1997 relationships or that it would all be torn down

and that therefore one has got to act very very

cautiously.

Am I inferring wrongly from these remarks you have

made about all things that could be torn down in 1997 if

we went faster towards a really genuine democracy between

now and 1997 in Hong Kong?

SIR DAVID WILSON:

I do not think the words you attributed to me

words that I have used at all,

are

What I have said is that continuity is important and

it is important to put in place something which is likely

to last.

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