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LEE, LOCAL LEGISLATOR WHO VISITED CDA RECENTLY, WHO ASKED THAT
CDA CONSIDER ISSUING SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF DELAYED DEPARTURE
VISAS, ON GROUNDS THAT THIS PRE-SELECTION WOULD GUARANTEE CDA
BEST IMMIGRANTS.MEMBERS, AND LEE, ASSUMED THAT BECAUSE OF LARGE
NUMBER OF POTENTIAL FAMILY REUNIFICATION CASES CREATED BY
STEADY FLOW OF EMIGRANTS OVER SEVERAL DECADES, CDA WOULD BE
FORCED TO ACCEPT LARGE NUMBER OF REFUGEES IF THINGS WENT BADLY
WRONG IN HKONG, BEFORE OR AFTER 1997.MPS DOUBTED THAT CDA
WOULD NOT BE UNDER SUCE OBLIGATION AND EXPLAINED CONCERNS THEY
HAD WITH ANY SPECIAL SCHEME FOR KONG GIVEN UNIVERSALITY OF
IMMIGRATION POLICIES.
6.ON RELATIONS WITH MAINLAND BEFORE AND AFTER 1997,MEMBERS
EXPRESSED FRUSTRATION AT NOT BEING RECOGNIZED AS
REPRESENTATIVES OF EKONG PEOPLE.HOWEVER DIFFICULT RELATIONS
MAY HAVE BEEN WITH PRC, PARTICULARLY SINCE JUNE4 MASSACRE,
MEMBERS BELIEVE THAT DIALOGUE RATHER THAN CONFRONTATION WILL
SOFTEN PRC HARD STAND ON HKONG AND ULTIMATELY SECURE ITS
FUTURE STABILITY AND PROSPERITY.
S.ANOTHER SUBJECT DISCUSSED WAS DIRECT ELECTIONS TO
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO BE HELD NEXT YEAR.MEMBERS STATED THAT
MORE REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS WOULD LEAD TO COUNCIL PLAYING
INCREASINGLY SIGNIFICANT AND IMPORTANT ROLE.
1.MPS ALSO HAD OPPORTUNITY TO BE BRIEFED BY COMMISSION ON
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