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Let me repeat one simple point.

What I have

tried to do with these proposals is to meet two objectives which I understand represent the views of the

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community to extend democracy while working within the Basic Law. None of the proposals I have outlined would What these contravene the provisions of the Basic Law. arrangements would give us, therefore, is a through train of democracy running on the tracks laid down by the Basic

Law.

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