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1995 ELECTION COMMITTEE AS A "MODEL"

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What do we mean when we ask the Chinese to agree that the 1995 Election Committee should be a "model" for the 1997 Selection Committee and subsequent Election Committees ?

We seek clear, public assurances that the Chinese

government will recommend to the Preparatory Committee and

to the SAR authorities after 1997 that:

(a) the way in which the first three sectors of each

Committee are elected should be the same as in the case of

the 1995 Election Committee;

(Comment: although this raises the difficulty of the NPC Decision's reference in the third sector to

• grass-roots'' which does not appear in Annex I; and, perhaps more importantly, the reference in para 3 of Annex I to the election of members to the Election Committee by ''corporate bodies'', a reference taken up in para 2 of Section I of annex I);

(b) all voting by the selection Committee and post-1997

Election Committees should be by the Single Transferable

vote system used by the 1995 Election Committee;

(Comment: although the BL does not specify that the Selection Committee must vote on candidates for Chief Executive)

(c) the nomination and other procedures for the election of

6 Legco members by the Election Committee in 1999 should be

identical with the 1995 procedures.

British Embassy Peking

19 July 1993.

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