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CONTIUCNTIAL

7.

the CPG:

Such

THE CPG'S GAINS

TEX I

a

ru

strategy would bring considerable gains to

(a)

The CPG

would claim that HKC was committed to

(b)

Ω

ensuring that, as far as possible, pre-1997

developments are compatible

constitutional

with the BL.

by

The

BL's interpretation would have been

clarified

the NPC, the PRC'S highest

constitutional body, and

HKG

would

be

(in the CPG's view)

bound, therefore, to accept its

verdict.

(c)

The local establishment (in part

1

Lar, LegCo

Members,

the

civil

service and business

leaders) would find

support for HKG's constitutional package.

alt to maintain

то

do

SO

would involve deliberate defiance of an

NPC enactment.

(d) CPG officials would be able to claim that the

scope

NPC.

for negotiation had been removed by the

CONFIDENTIAL

機密

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