TNAG-2730-FCO40-3936-Future-of-Hong-Kong-constitutional-development-1993 — Page 74

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06 JAN '93 13:00

PRESS STATEMENT

1) f.". Polit. Parker (CRC Constit. Dept

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A Government spokesman said today (Wednesday)

that the Governor's meeting with the leaders of the Cooperative Resources Centre had been valuable and constructive. He said the issues discussed were political development, the forthcoming budget, localisation of the civil service and the importance of maintaining the effectiveness of the ICAC.

The CRC leaders presented their position paper on constitutional development and explained that at this stage they were focusing on broad principles. They said that they would be presenting the document to the Prime Minister when they met him on 19 January.

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The Governor said, if the CRC had difficulties with what he had proposed, he hoped that they would develop their own thinking from the level of general principles to specific proposals on issues such as the functional constituencies and the Election Committee. imagined that the Prime Minister would ask the CRC if they had any alternative proposals if they did not agree with the ones which the Governor had put forward.

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On the Election Committee, the Governor repeated the points he made in his Address to the Legislative

Council on 7 October i.e. that the electors of the

Election Committee should themselves have been elected

and that the simplest and most effective way of achieving this would be to draw most if not all of the members from the directly elected District Boards. However, he did not preclude drawing some members of the Committee from other sources, provided they too were elected.

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