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GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

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recommends that the public handling of the delegation's call on the Prime Minister should be as low key as

possibic. Hic aavioc is that the Prime Minister should

not agree to a photocall with Allen Lee, nor should he accompany him to the door at the end of the call. He also agrees that it is important that the Foreign

Secretary should speak to the press after the meeting, as a prcoaution in case Allen Lee should give a distorted

public version of the discussion. Lee has done this on a number of occasions in the past.

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The latest position on the Governor's

constitutional proposals is that the Governor has begun detailed discussions with Exco about the terms of the

draft legislation which he will put to Lcgco. The Hong Kong Government has confirmed publicly that these discussions are under way and that ExCu has already agreed a non-controversial bill to establish a Boundary

and Elcotion Commission and a compendium of alternative

proposals for publication. I have written to you separately about that.

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Much of the discussion at the CRC's recent

meeting with the Governor was about the Election Committee. kel you know, The Governor's current proposal is that the Election Committee, which/elect 10 members

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of Teyêu, should be composed of members of llong Kong's

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Distric: BOATIN - who themselves should be directly elected. The Governor told the CRC that the key point is

that members of the Election Committee should themselves

be cicated. The CRC may claim to the Prime Minister they did to the press after their meeting with the

Governor that the Governor had agreed to a revised composition of the Election Committee, along the lines of

the four categories envisaged in the Basic LAW. This is

not in tact the casa. If the CRC attempt to raise this

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