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TRANSCRIPT E SELECT COMITTER OI HONG KONG 12 JULE 1989

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MR ROVLANDS

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Basic Law to reverse that process or to establish a much

lower limit of directly-elected members in the Basic Law?

SIR DAVID WILSOX:

I do not see how you can rule that out. I have no

knowledge on which I could rule that out.

KR ROWLANDS:

The Foreign Secretary said in the House of Commons

the other day: "that we shall be conducting a thorough

examination of the programme for advancing and

consolidating effective democracy in Hong Kong“. He did

not add in conjuction with talks with the government in

Paking.

SIR DAVID VILSON:

Can I just go back to the basic point I am making.

I do not think there is any lack of clarity in it at all.

It is quite simply that you want to set up something

before 1997 which you know is going to go through after

1997. Now we do not have total control over what is

happening after 1997.

down in a Basic Law.

That will eventually be written