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Mr Narajan of the Hong Kong Council of Indian Association
called on me at 1430 hours on 18 June. The Council had originally requested a meeting with Mr Luce.
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Our conversation went over
following points:
familiar ground, and covered the
(a) Right of abode: Mr Narajan said that Indians were grateful for
the concessions that had been made to
been made to them during the passage of
the Hong Kong Act, but they still hoped to obtain the right of abode
in the UK. He asked whether it would be possible to secure right of
abode in the UK during the passage of the Nationality Order in
Council. I explained that it would be ultra vires to include such a
provision in The Order in Council, and that I could see no prospect
of the Government granting the right of abode to one section of the
Hong Kong community. Mr Narajan asked if one objection to granting
right of abode was that the Chinese majority in Hong Kong would feel discriminated against. I said that this was of course one factor.
(b) Chinese nationality: Mr Narajan said that he found it odd that the Chinese had made no public offer to grant Chinese nationality to
the Indians despite the publicity surrounding the question during
the parliamentary debates.
In any case the Indians did not want Chinese nationality. I explained that the Indians would be entitled
to apply for Chinese nationality under the Chinese nationality law.
This was something we would explore further with the Chinese in the
Joint Liaison Group.
τ thought the Chinese might well be
willing in due course to indicate that in principle they would grant Chinese nationality to Indians in Hong Kong who applied for