order to give LegCo members access to more support staff and an independent (ie, non-Government) research capacity. (These are things for which the UDHK too have been arguing).
The Hong Kong Government has gone some way to providing for
services
through the newly-independent OMELCO organisation, although the UDHK have criticised this new arrangment as a device to keep control of LegCo.
3.
Mr Lang makes some sensible practical suggestions as to how an effective committee system might be built up (Recommendation E paras 25-29), for example by fixing their number, size, jurisdiction, etc. There are other, similarly practical, recommendations in the rest of the
paper. In themselves they are not revolutionary, but in the context of Hong Kong they may seem so. So far LegCo has had no experience of working as a high-profile, political body and of organising its business accordingly.
K. Sanders
KAM Saunders
It is a serious, thoughtful piece of work with much good sense. The OMELCO system contributed significantly to the good governance of "Hong Kong and Community Consultation (consensus → HCG acceptability / accountability (autionty. But Lady Duan and some in the HK administration were too slow to see that it had to charge : this tardiness, and the opportunity for Leg to development to become a campaign identified with the UDHK, have added to the difficulties of selling to the Churies the measwe's which would help HK function effectively & relatively autonomously after 1997. So it is not surprising that I Long has sometimes felt rather bitter. We must try to encourage him to take a philosophical view and to give more weight to the present political constraints. particularly
the Churise dimension FOBABN/2
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