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Hong Kong should be
community.
That is
about the pace of
open, fair and acceptable to the
what the debate is about. It is not
democratic development; the pace is set
out in the Basic Law and will not change unless the Basic
It 18 about ensuring that that
Law itself is changed.
democratic development im open and fair.
invite
If we allow a
system to develop in which elections may be rigged, we
corruption; we endanger the rule of law, on which our
rink losing many of the freedoms
success depends; and
that protect our way of life and which both the Joint
Declaration and the Basic Law seek to guarantee.
168.
We shall also
We shall stick to our principles.
continue to seek from the Chinese Government an agreement on
objective criteria for the "through train", so that those
run for election to this Council in 1995
do so what the rules of the game will be.
who may want to
know before they
There can be no agreement on electoral arrangements without
such agreed objective criteria.
169.
We believe strongly that it should be possible to
reach an agreement with the Chinese Government which is
fully compatible with the Joint Declaration, the Basic Law
and all other
principles and Chinese concerns.
rather
agreements, and
which satisfies both our
But we now have only weeks
than months to conclude
these talks, one way or
which we must take the view of this council
another, after
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