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want to find out the truth about Hong Kong, and this is your

task, I would respectfully suggest that you get the Hong Kong Governor's consent to release all present and past senior civil servants and Members of the Executive Council from their oath of secrecy.

Yesterday, last night, you remember you

a question in our in-house meeting for examples of Chinese interventions in Hong Kong recently and I gave you

three. After the meeting, a Member of the Executive

Council came up to me and said, "Martin, but for that oath

of secrecy, I would have told them more."

CHAIRMAN:

Mr. Lee, thank you very much for those

opening comments.

And you have touched on a number of

issues, which I know we would like to seek your views on

further. Can I first begin with the central issue, and that

is the question of democratization and your metaphor that

the ship is off course.

MR MARTIN LEE:

Yes

CHAIRMAN:

...and your phrase that Britain, I think you

used the phrase that Britain should give Hong Kong its

democracy. Our problem is this, and I know it is one you

understand - but I would like you to comment on it that we

hear different voices on the bridge of this ship, many

different voices, and we find it difficult to establish what

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