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FM HONG KONG

TO DESKBY 06120OZ FCO

TELNO 2648

OF 061115Z NOVEMBER 92

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG

026056

MDHIAN 6617

на

Chute maitz

LEGCO QUESTION ON RAISING THE 1989 OMELCO CONSENSUS WITH THE CHINESE SIDE.

THE HON.FRED LI, A DIRECTLY ELECTED LEGCO MEMBER FROM THE LIBERAL GROUP MEETING POINT, HAS TABLED A QUESTION ON THE 1989 OMELCO CONSENSUS ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM, FOR ORAL REPLY AT THE LEGCO SITTING ON 11 NOVEMBER. HIS QUESTION READS AS FOLLOWS:

2.

QUOTE. AS THE OMELCO CONSENSUS ON POLITICAL REFORM REACHED IN 1989 WAS NOT MENTIONED IN ANY OF THE RECENTLY RELEASED DIPLOMATIC LETTERS EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS IN EARLY 1990 ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF HONG KONG, WILL GOVERNMENT INFORM THIS COUNCIL:

(A) WHETHER IT IS AWARE OF THE REASONS WHY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DID NOT MENTION THE OMELCO CONSENSUS IN THESE LETTERS ADDRESSED TO CHINA:

(B)

WHETHER THE THEN GOVERNOR AND EXECUTIVE COUNCIL HAD

ALL THE RELEVANT MATERIALS APART FROM THE ABOVE- MENTIONED LETTERS AND WHETHER THEY HAD BEEN INFORMED OF THE DETAILS DISCUSSED THROUGHOUT THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN BRITISH SIDE AND CHINESE SIDE

ON THE PACE OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN HONG KONG:

AND

(C) WHETHER IT IS AWARE OF THE REASONS FOR THE BRITISH

GOVERNMENT TO AGREE IN PRINCIPLE WITH THE ARRANGEMENTS PROPOSED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT FOR AN ELECTION COMMITTEE TO BE ESTABLISHED IN HONG KONG IN 1995, AS STATED IN ITS LETTER TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ON

12 FEBRUARY 1990 QUERY. UNQUOTE.

WE PROPOSE TO REPLY AS FOLLOWS:

QUOTE. THE HKG WAS FULLY CONSULTED AT ALL TIMES ABOUT THE

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