Talks between Hong Kong students, officials ends as democracy protests spiral

Talks between Hong Kong students, officials ends as democracy protests spiral

FP Archives October 21, 2014, 18:48:10 IST

Protesters have occupied main streets in three areas of the city since September 28 to demand that the government abandon plans to use the screening committee.

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Talks between Hong Kong students, officials ends as democracy protests spiral

Hong Kong: Hong Kong student leaders and government officials held talks Tuesday to end pro-democracy protests now in their fourth week even as the city’s Beijing-backed leader reaffirmed his unwillingness to compromise on the activists’ key demand.

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying told reporters that the government won’t let the public nominate candidates to run in inaugural direct elections to succeed him in 2017, as demanded by thousands of protesters camping out on main streets across the city. But he added that there’s room to discuss how to form a key 1,200-member committee that would pick candidates.

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Leung Chun-ying said such changes could be covered in a second round of consultations over the next several months.

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