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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PACKAGE

111.

The community's main hope is that

together we should be successful in

safeguarding our way of life, because this

is the best guarantee of Hong Kong's

prosperity for as far ahead as any of us can

One integral part of our

see or envisage.

system is the participation of individual

citizens in the conduct of

Hong Kong's

affairs. The pace at which we broaden this

participation, and the

bounds

to which we

the

heart of much

elsewhere.

This

can extend it, lie at

public debate

debate here and

discussion about democracy in Hong Kong is

one on which I wish to make my own beliefs

and objectives clear. The sooner we can

resolve the important issues at stake in a

way which satisfies our own community, and

I hope our friends in China and the United

Kingdom, the better. But I begin with the

assumption that unless the people of Hong

Kong are content with the final outcome, it

is unlikely to work as well as everyone,

from here to Peking and

again, would surely wish.

London and back

112.

In the debate

about

the pace of

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