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DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret

Secret

Confidential

Restricted

clearly divided.

We therefore concluded that this change

should be introduced in 1991 rather than earlier.

promise or undertaking was broken.

planned, let alone postponed.

"postponed" until 1991.

all these counts.

Νο

No referendum was

Elections were not

Your leader was quite wrong on

Unclassified

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

Our approach to the development of representative

Government in Hong Kong has been consistent and clear

it should be prudent and gradual; it should suit Hong

Kong's circumstances; and it should have the widest

possible public support. Each step has been taken on the

basis of painstaking public consultation.

And we have

impressed on the Chinese Government the importance of

following similar principles in the planning for

constitutional arrangements after 1997.

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