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6.
YOUR AMENDMENT TO PARA 6 AGREED BUT WE WOULD LIKE ALSO TO
BRING IN REFERENCE TO CHILDREN UNDER 21, AS DOES SECTION XIV OF
ANNEX I TO JOINT DECLARATION. WE SUGGEST THEREFORE IN FIRST
SENTENCE AFTER 'PERMANENT RESIDENCE' ADD AND THEIR CHILDREN
UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE BORN TO THEM IN HONG KONG BEFORE OR
AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HONG KONG SAR ...' AND REPLACE
THIRD SENTENCE BY THE HONG KONG SAR WILL BE THEIR HOME AND THEY
WILL HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE THERE. MOST OF THEM WILL HAVE NO
RIGHT OF ABODE ELSEWHERE.'.
7.
8.
YOUR AMENDMENT TO PARA 7 AGREED.
GRATEFUL FOR YOUR EARLY COMMENTS ON ABOVE.
HOWE
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
HD/NTD
RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)
DEP HD/PUSD
PS
PS/MR RENTON
PS/LADY YOUNG
PS/PUS
COPIES TO:
MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR MILLER, MVD
MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE
MR EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON
MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE
ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.
SIR W HARDING MR WILSON
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