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Mr Fung Kin Kee

Chairman

Hong Kong Association for Democracy

and People's Livelihood

Flat 9, 3rd Floor

Rondall Building

168-178 Tai Po Road

Kowloon

Hong Kong

Thank you for your letter of 5 September to the Prime Minister raising five issues relating to Hong Kong.

I shall take them in turn.

First you propose that by 1995 not less than 50% of seats in LegCo should be elected by universal suffrage.

Our policy in this area has not changed. We want to see

steady progress towards a greater degree of direct

election in Hong Kong, and to see this progress sustained

without interuption after 1997. As the Prime Minister

made clear in Hong Kong, these issues will need

discussion with the new Legislative Council and will need

to be taken up with the Chinese at the right time, before

the 1995 elections.

Second, the basic concepts and arrangmenets for

functional constituencies are clearly set out in the 1984

and 1988 Hong Kong white papers on the development of

JIFABC/TG