TNAG-2781-FCO40-4000-Future-of-Hong-Kong-constitutional-development-Chinese-reac-1993 — Page 192

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Chinese sources quoted in the Oriental Daily News

10.7.93

NCNA HK branch director Zhou Nan

The British side has during the talks asked for the inclusion of some pro-British elements in the consultative sub-groups of the preparatory working committee.

Local NPC and CPPCC delegates and HK Affairs Advisers who are not members of the preparatory working committee can give their views by taking part in the ad hoc groups to be set up under the preparatory working committee. The committee is a working organ and not a "second power centre".

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Wang Qiren

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Zhou Nan

The preparatory working committee will not interfere with the administration of HK by the British-HK authorities before June 1997. It will not affect the normal operation of the JLG.

There is no need for the preparatory working committee to set up any consultative body to collect public views as there are already many channels to do

So.

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