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PS/Mr Onslow
BRITISH CITIZENSHIP IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
Your minute of 18 August
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Thank you for passing on Mr Onslow's comments. I am unable to advise on the political heart of the question as to what will work in Parliament. I understand that this is also exercising the Home Office who are the lead Department in nationality matters. It may be for consideration between Private Offices whether Ministers would find it useful to have a word about this aspect with their Home Office colleagues.
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2. It is probable that in the course of such a discussion Home Office Ministers would ask for assurances that a move to make special provision for the Falkland Islands would not lead to discontent in other dependencies which would in turn be reflected in Parliament.
3. On the technical side any move to extend British citizenship in special circumstances for any reason would confirm the remaining dependent territories in their suspicion that BDTC is a second-class citizenship - a misapprehension that we have hitherto energetically countered and sought to remove.
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C J Howells
Nationality & Treaty Dept
19 August 1982
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PS/Mr Rifkind
PS/Lord Belstead
Lord N Gordon Lennox
Mr Ure
Mr Donald
Mr Fearn, SAMD
Mr Clift
Mr Edwards, WIAD
Mr Jackson, Falklands Unit
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