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Election Committee : Composition of the

4th Sector and Voting Method

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As you know, we have been giving some thoughts might accommodate the Chinese side's insistence that Hong Kong NPC deputies and representatives of Hong Kong CPPCC members should be given seats on the 4th sector of the EC as of right, if that is necessary to clinch a deal on the whole package of electoral arrangements (incl. the "through train").

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I attach

being developed by extremely difficult which looks like half way.

a note which describes an approach

CAB.

As you can see, it would be for us to defend in Hong Kong anything meeting the Chinese concerns even We are thus very nervous about going down The Governor would like to discuss this with you after Round 16 in Hong Kong. We may also have an initial chat about it, together with Peter Ricketts and Nigel Cox, while we are in Peking.

this route.

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On a related

related point, we are very conscious that the participation of

substantial number of NPC delegates/CPPCC members, together with their supporters the Legco and district organizations, could give

in the

It

by

Chinese virtual control over the 4th sector of the EC. is doubly important, therefore, that we must ensure that the EC members in the first 3 sectors should be elected

a credible arrangement from 27 of our proposed 30 FCs. We have not, so far, been able to pin down the Chinese that the EC members of the first 3 sectors would be elected

the constituents of the 27 FCs. We must do so when we next discuss the EC with the Chinese.

fairly and openly from

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As regards the voting system proposed by the Chinese for EC members to elect 10 Legco members, we are still doing some more work on it. The Ad Hoc Group discussed this briefly, and come to the view that we should

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