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CONFIDENTIAL

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This

issue

has been

in the public

doma in for many

months.

It

has, for

example,

been

on discussed

more

than one occasion in the

and the Government was able to take

аге

an

LegCo Public Service

The positions of the respective parties

Pancl.

well known

informed

1

decision.

To have had a period of formal consultation would

meant having a moratorium on the

localisation

have

policy

would have taken

us to court and

we

A

moratorium

would have been

would have

led to enormous

(otherwise the AECS

would have lost).

extremely damaging and

uncertainty. We were not prepared to accept this.

IS W: BULL-PT)