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DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)
approach to the granting of the right of abode, coupled with a general recognition that it would be churlish to
turn down such a package.
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On the implementation of the Joint Declaration, most
Members agreed that the Agreement was a good one.
But it
was clear that people in Hong Kong had lost faith in
China's commitment to the Agreement and that more would
need to be done to bolster confidence in it.
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Members called for improvements in the draft Basic Law
and called on the Government to press for these.
On the development of representative government,
Members expressed a range of views. A few, including
Mr Martin Lee, endorsed the Committee's recommendation
that there should be a fully directly elected legislature
by 1997. A majority of Members expressed the view that
this timetable was too fast, and continued to support the
decision, taken by Members of the Executive and
Legislative Councils before the events of 3/4 June, that
there should be 50% directly elected seats by 1997.
Members made it clear that in their view even this pace
was too ambitious
Some
On the Vietnamese boat people question, Members
welcomed the clear recommendation in the Report that
those who are screened out as non-refugees should be
repatriated to Vietnam, and expressed appreciation for the Government's readiness to take up the issue with
Vietnam. But there was much resentment of the fact that
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