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seats in 1997 would not be

sufficient to command support in

Hong Kong. He also stated that if

arrangements for constituting the

Election Committee were open and

fully representative, it should be

initiated in 1995 through

consultations between the British

and Chinese sides. In addition, he

pressed for the voting system in

the legislature after 1997 to be

the one to which Hong Kong was

accustomed.

:

Second, a reply of 20 January 1990

delivered by Mr Chen Ziying, then

Head of the Hong Kong and Macao

Affairs Office of the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs, to the then

British Ambassador. The Chinese

side made clear that they could not

agree to Mr Hurd's proposals on

directly elected seats.

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