IN an attempt to strengthen their role, local delegates to the National People's Congress (NPC) yesterday announced the setting up of a committee to address the formation of the first Special Administrative Region (SAR) government and legislature.
This is to be accompanied by another committee which will look at the election of delegates to the national law-making body after 1997.
Announcing the measures, NPC delegate Ng Hong-mun said it was necessary for delegates - who will be members of the committee which will choose the chief executive - to make suggestions on the formation of the first SAR government.
Mr Ng said the NPC's work would not clash with the Preliminary Working Committee, which is also looking at the issue.
''They will have their own proposals and we, as NPC delegates, are going to present ours to the NPC Standing Committee.'' On the election of the delegates to the next NPC session in 1998, Mr Ng said it was unlikely members would be returned by direct elections.
The Basic Law stipulates the SAR should have its own laws on the election of delegates to the national law-making body.
