TNAG-1852-FCO40-2627-House-of-Commons-Select-Committee-on-Foreign-Affairs-enquiry-1989 — Page 147

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The Committee believes that full democracy, ie 100% directly elected seats, should be introduced before 1997:

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Hong Kong people must be allowed to decide on their own system of government before 1997 as well as after 1997:

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A Green Paper should be published on wide range of issues relating

Results to be incorporated into law for 1991 to the electoral law.

elections:

One issue to

Needs to be considered with Hong Kong Government. be addressed would be the number of functional consistency seats, which the FAC do not favour, in 1991.

a Green Paper is not clear.

Otherwise the purpose of such

A consequence of full direct elections to LegCo in 1997 will be the need to increase the directly elected element to 50% in 1991:

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Too early to come to any conclusions on what will be needed in

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The first Chief Executive should be elected by an electoral college on the lines provided for the second and third Chief Executives in the draft Basic Law?

Before recent events in China, we had concluded that arrangements

Will need to keep under on these lines would be appropriate.

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