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16 JAN 90
TRAESCRIPT OF PRESS CUMFERENCE
GIYKS BY THE FUNKIGE SKCRETARY, AR DOUGLÁS KÜRD,
IT KEN KUNG,
OF TUESDAY, 16 JABUARY 1990
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QUESTION (Wall Street Journal);
Have you absolutely ruled out a fully elected legislature by
1997 and if you bave is it strictly because you do but maat to
irritate China or is it because there is some way in which the
people of Hong Kong are not yet ready for that?
FORHIGH SECRETARY:
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know what that contains, it is a statesmanlike proposal, put
together after consulting a great deal of Hong Kong opinion.
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may,
auù i kupe juu muulû accept this and I hope
your American readers would accept this too, the best way is a
system which will actually endure, the best way is a system which
will make a substantial start next year towards democracy, a start
which will then be maintained and developed. That is the best way
if one is seriously laterested in democracy in Hong Kong and
wishing to reconcile that with the Joint Declaration, with the
Sino-British Agreement.
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