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Principle of Election to the Flection Committee
[Background
At his meeting with Qian on 9 July, the S of S said that provided that agreement could be reached on two principles. we would be willing to consider whether an EC could be devised on the basis of the composition and ratio set out in para 2 of Annex I of the BL which would meet the essential requirements of both sides.
One of the two
principles was that EC members should be elected fairly and openly in Hong Kong, not selected (and the other was that the arrangements for the elections which took place inside the EC should themselves be open and fair). At Round 8, Jiang said this formulation could not be found in the five principles put forward by the British side in
1990, and was therefore a new Issue.]
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The principle that the members of the Election Committee should themselves be elected fairly and openly in Hong Kong and not selected, is of course not a new issue.
his meeting with Mr. Qian in July. Mr Hurd was reiterating a principle to which we have all along attached great importance. In his message of 18 January 1990, he emphasised the need for arrangements for constituting what was then called the grand electoral college to be "open and fully representative". He reiterated the point in his next message 05 31 January to Mr. Qian. The principle was then
reflected in one of the five principles to which the
Chinese side say they agree :
representative as possible.
that the EC should be as
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EC cannot be geminely
representative without being elected fairly and openly.
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