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2003. This is reflected in the Basic Law. But there was no agreement or understanding between the UK and China on the

number of directly elected seats in 1995 nor on three other

areas the election committee, for the first Legislative

Council after 1997, the new nationality provisions for the SAR

legislature and the voting method of the SAR legislature. 1990 exchange is inconclusive on these points. Exchanges took

place between publication of 2nd Draft BL, and final version.

In the event, the final version, published in April 1990,

contained no provisions on the composition of the election

committee for the first LegCo after 1997. Since neither the

British nor the Chinese proposals on this aspect were reflected

in the text, those discussions no longer relevant.

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