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ANNEX A

THE NEXT SIX YEARS: HONG KONG ISSUES

Hong Kong Civil Service

Identity and selection of first Chief Executive.

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SARG senior officials.

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Pensions, pay awards and sterling safeguards.

Recruitment policy.

Nationality of civil servants aspiring to senior posts.

THE NEXT

SIX YEARS: HONG KONG

ISSUES

Defence

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Defence lands

- The withdrawal of the naval and military garrisons: timing

and residual size.

Arrangements for the PLA in Hong Kong.

Constitutional Affairs

Arrangements for 1995 elections to match the Basic Law, eg

establishment of an electoral college, increased functional

constituencies, handling of LegCo business.

Ways of ensuring that the 20% Basic Law limit on members

of LegCo who have foreign nationality is observed in 1997

and, by extension, 1995.

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Proposed establishment of an independent electoral commission pre-1995.

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