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MR GOODLAD'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: 11-12 OCTOBER

BRIEF NO 14

MEETING AND DINNER WITH LEGCO

Opening Remarks

Delighted to be back in Hong Kong and to have the opportunity as usual to discuss issues of concern to you.

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

to make some introductory remarks on that.

Propose

- The Governor told you in his Address last week the main issues

on which the talks have been concentrating, and about the two

major moves made by the British side on functional

constituencies and the Election Committee

since the British

and Chinese Foreign Ministers met in July. But, as you know, we

have agreed that the content of these talks should be

confidential, so I will not be able to go further than he did

into the detail.

However I should like to say a few words about our general approach. We have two main objectives as far as these election

arrangements are concerned:

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

It

means that in a two-tier voting system, that will apply in

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