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In the view of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong Government this proposal does not meet the essential requirements and would not therefore provide a fair and open method of election.
57.
Following precisely the composition for the fourth sector set out in paragraph 2 of Annex 1 of the Basic Law raises two problems. First, the Basic Law model includes members of the present Legislative Council, not all of whom have been elected. Second, it includes representatives of Hong Kong Deputies to the National People's Congress and Hong Kong members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who have not been elected openly and fairly in Hong Kong; to include such people in the Election Committee simply by virtue of their membership of these non-Hong Kong bodies would be a major breach of the requirement that the Election Committee should be composed of people who had themselves been elected openly and fairly in Hong Kong.
58. The voting method proposed by the Chinese side is self-evidently restrictive and cumbersome.
59. Following the Foreign Secretary's meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister in July 1993, the British side introduced a revised proposal on the Election Committee in Round eight of the talks. This took account of the main Chinese point by proposing that the Election Committee should be composed of four sectors on the lines set out in Annex 1 of the Basic Law. The first three sectors would be elected by grouping the 30 Functional Constituencies into three groups of ten. Electors in each Functional Constituency would then elect a number of members to the Election Committee, as well as a Functional Constituency representative to the Legislative Council. On the fourth sector, the British side proposed that it should be returned by
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