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MEMBERS OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
立法局議員
15 May 1992
The Rt. Hon. John Major, MP
10 Downing Street
London, SW1
United Kingdom
Dear Prime Minister:
As the 18 democratically elected members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, we write to you to express our unified belief that Hong Kong must establish a genuinely democratic system of government if Hong Kong people are to truly rule Hong Kong and we are to enjoy a high degree of autonomy.
When you visited Hong Kong in September of last year, you stated several times that you would wish to consult with the democratically elected members of the Legislative Council after You said the the colony's first elections on September 15. British Government would not take any decisions about political reform in Hong Kong until your government had a chance to consider the views of the elected Hong Kong representatives for, in your words, "that after all is what democracy is all about."
We write to you to ensure that you are fully aware of the strength of our views on the development of a genuine democracy in Hong Kong. We all campaigned around the common theme that at least half of the Legislative Council must be democratically elected by 1995 (in line with, the unanimous OMELCO consensus of 1989). The election results demonstrate that the people of Hong Kong share our belief that a democratic political system is essential if we are to enjoy the political and economic freedoms promised to Hong Kong in the Joint Declaration. We note that our goal of allowing for at least half the seats of Legco to be democratically elected by 1995 is an extremely modest one, which falls far short of the recommendation of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee that the full Legco be democratically elected by 1995.
Our
When you spoke to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe on 16 October 1991, you stated: "The bedrock of what we must do must be the general application of democracy and human rights...That means the rights of citizens to choose freely who governs them." Surely, this If the principle must apply with equal force to Hong Kong. British Government is to urge other governments to democratise, it certainly ought to start in its own backyard by allowing democracy in Hong Kong to develop, especially when people here have voted so overwhelmingly in favour of it.
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