Chanting slogans cannot take forward universal suffrage, the Constitutional Affairs Bureau says.
In response to a public meeting and procession today, the bureau said the Central Authorities and the Hong Kong Government are firmly committed to promoting constitutional development in accordance with the Basic Law, with a view to achieving the ultimate aim of universal suffrage.
It said the Government plans to devise a roadmap for universal suffrage before formulating a timetable.
The community must first have sufficient discussions and broad consensus on the models for universal suffrage, to then develop a roadmap for universal suffrage.
Once there is a roadmap, the timetable for attaining universal suffrage would fall into place naturally.
The Government aims to publish a report in 2007 that draws conclusions on the discussion of the Commission on Strategic Development, and to submit the report to the Central Authorities.The report will provide a basis for the third-term Government to continue to take forward Hong Kong's democratisation.
It added that Hong Kong's elections have a fine tradition of being open, fair and clean. Both the Election Committee subsector elections tomorrow and the Chief Executive election in March would be held in accordance with the Basic Law and the relevant electoral legislation, and in an open and fair manner.
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