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District Organisations.

other Parliaments and Councils should remain.

But the prohibition on members of

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40.

The British side agreed in Round 13 that as part of a stage agree

overall package) they would be willing to commend to the Legislative Council an amendment to the law to permit People's Congress Deputies to become members of the Legislative Council

and District Organisations.

DISTRICT BOARD AND MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS (1994/95)

41.

The Governor proposed in October 1992 that all members of the District Boards and Municipal Councils should be directly-elected (except for ex-officio members in the New Territories, who are elected representatives of villages).

42.

Since their inception the District Boards and Municipal Councils have been moving away from a wholly appointed membership towards an elected membership. The Governor's proposal is fully consistent with the principle of open and fair elections, and of the gradual development of Hong Kong's

political system.

43. The Chinese proposal made in Round 4 of the talks was

that the nature, functions and method for forming the District

Organisations should remain unchanged. Appointed membership

should be retained.

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This would, in effect,

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The Chinese proposal seeks to freeze the development of democracy in the District Boards and Municipal Councils at its

and be 1991 level This is inconsistent with the professed Chinese desire to see gradual and orderly progress towards full

democracy in Hong Kong.

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS (1995)

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