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Meeting between Mr Goodlad and

Members of the Legislative Council :

12 October 1993

In

speaking to following: -

the members

of

LegCo

Mr

Goodlad

said

the

I

am

and to be back delighted to

in Hong Kong opportunity as usual to discuss issues of concern to you.

have

the

I expect that one of the issues you will want to raise is the I propose talks with China on the 1995 election arrangements. to make some introductory remarks on that.

British

side

functional

address last week the main issues The Governor told you in his on which the talks have been concentrating, and about the two

the made by major moves constituencies and the Election Committee and Chinese Foreign Ministers met in July. have

agreed

that

the content

of these

on since the British But, as you know, we talks should be

confidential, so I will not be able to go further than he did into the detail.

should like to

to say

a few words about our general However I approach. We have two main objectives as far as these election arrangements are concerned:

What this means Firstly that they should be fair and open. in the case of functional constituencies, for example, is that the electorates should be sufficiently large so that It there is no possibility of the vote being manipulated.

that in a two-tier voting system, that will apply in there should, at each the case of the Election Committee,

That is why we propose, for stage, be a genuine choice. example, that all members of the Election Committee should themselves have been elected.

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