TNAG-2221-FCO40-3189-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-role-of-the-Legislat-1991 — Page 136

BILLS. I said that as far as I was aware this had not been used for almost 30 years.

I hope the point about Legco's law making role registered with chen and Yang. For the rest, Chen Rongchun salu several times that the Governor should discuss Legco mallels with bu ping. i detected in this some personal sympathy for some of our points. But the line he has from Peking is hard.

(WG Ehrman) Political Adviser

15 October 1991

CC

Яå CPU

Mr wiggham

UKREP JLG, Mr Paul

PS/GH

mo kicketts, HKD, FCÒ

Mr Coates,

(by fax)

Peking (by bag)

CONFIDENTIAL

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