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is any more special than their own, and that a concession to Gibraltar would serve only to produce justifiable protests and similar demands from all the other dependencies, not just Hong Kong. We are after all well aware that all the dependencies would prefer that the present single form of citizenship remains unchanged. Mr Luce may wish to be aware of this in case

Lord Carrington decides to take action with the waiverers in the

House of Lords.

5. I am copying this minute to the Home Office Nationality

Law Review Unit and to SAMD, SED, WIAD, and HKGD.

10 July 1981

Juma Korsun. Оным

T ROONEY

Nationality & Treaty Department

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