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PA said

that if there was no agreement,

package would be supported only by UDHK. Indeed, it might not make any difference whether we presented LegCo with our package or a revised

package as

LegCo would most probably agree to a modified package eventually. On the question

whether LegCo would vote for us to go back to

the Chinese, the meeting agreed that the Chinese

would not want to re-open talks in those

circumstances and afterall, there would be no

time for it by then.

SCA said

that if we introduced legislation on a revised

package, UDHK might support the lowering of

voting age but not the revised EC and FCs. It

would thus be important for us to be able to

dilute the criticism by UDHK to a level

acceptable to the international community.

The Governor said

that the OPD (K) paper should

camped on our present

review situation after the

whatever the tactics we

a

recommend that we

position, we should

sixth round, and if

might take after that did not produce

satisfactory result, the sort of options that we

would need to consider. We should aim to get

specific endorsement from ministers on fall-back

options.

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