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Universal suffrage motion voted down by Hong Kong Legislative Council.
(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
Hong Kong, 22 November: Hong Kong's Legislative Council Wednesday [22 November] voted down a motion of electing the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) through universal suffrage in 2012.
Stephen S.L. Lam, secretary for constitutional affairs of the HKSAR, said the motion is putting the cart before the horse and that it may turn into an empty talk to work out a timetable hurriedly before deciding on a specific model and a road-map for universal suffrage.
Lam said during the …
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