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did make clear was that the Election Committee for the

first Special Administrative Region legislature would

explicitly not be the Election Committee for 1999, the

composition of which was set out in the Basic Law.

Since there was no agreement with China on the composition of the Election Committee, the Governor had no alternative but to make proposals of his own consistent with the five principles.