3. JOHN SWAINE, SUPPORTED BY STEPHEN CHEONG, SELINA CHOW, HUT HYIN-FAT, MARTIN LEE AND MORE OBLIQUALY BY DESMOND LEE, UPGED THAT HEP MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE THE LEAD IN RECOGNISING THE NEW BN(0) PASSPORT BY ENDORSING THE PASSPORT TO SHOW THAT THE HOLDER HAS AUTOMATIC PERMISSION TO ENTER THE UK AS VISITOR.
5. RIGHT OF ABODE ENDORSEMENT IN BN(0) PASSPORT,
4. TWO MEMBERS, DR HO KAM-FAT AND MRS SELIMA CHOW, REFEPPED TO THE RIGHT OF ABODE ENDORSEMENT IN BN(0) PASSPORT. RECALLING MP. LUCE'S UNDERTAKING IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR TO ENTER INTO DISCUSSION WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WORDKING OF THE ENDORSEMENT WOULD BE SUCH THAT THE HOLDER NEED ONLY PRODUCE HIS PASSPORT BUT NOT HIS IDENTITY CARD TO SECURE ACCESS INTO THIRD COUNTRIES, BOTH MEMBERS EMPHASISED THE NEED FOR THE BM(0) PASSPORT TO BE EFFECTIVE AND SELF-STANDING. REFERRING TO BARONESS YOUNG'S REPLY TO A QUESTION ON THE RIGHT OF ABODE ENDORSEMENT IN BN(0) PASSPORT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS YESTERDAY, DR. HO SAID THAT THE WORDING AGREED IN PRINCIPLE BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND CHINESE GOVERNMENTS HAD NOT FULLY ADDRESSED THIS POINT. MRS. CHOW EXPRESSED SIMILAR DOUBTS ABOUT THE ADEQUACY OF THE AGPEED FORMULA AND URGED THAT A 'CERTIFICATE OF RIGHT OF ABODE' AS RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT COUNCIL ON THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS BE PUT ON BN(0) PASSPORT.
5. SEVERAL MEMBERS, INCLUDING MRS SELINA CHOW AND MR DESMOND LEE, URGED HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE DETAILED AND REGULAR REPORTS ON DISCUSSIONS WITH THIRD COUNTRIES TO SECURE THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF BM(0) PASSPORT.
D. NEED TO GIVE SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION TO THE REQUEST FOR RIGHT OF ABODE IN THE UK FROM NON-CHINESE BDTCS AND FROM EX-SERVICEMEN
IN HONG KONG.
6. AS MENTIONED IN PARA. 2, THREE MEMBERS, ALLEN LEE, MAPTIN LEE AND THOMAS CLYDESDALE, DWELLED MAINLY ON THE REQUEST FOR RIGHT OF ABODE IN THE UK FROM THE ETHNIC MINORITES. THEY DREW ATTENTION TO THE POSSIBILITY OF STATELESSNESS AMONG THE THIRD GENERATION OF THE ETHNIC MINORITIES, AND URGED THAT THE ETHNIC MINOPITIES, ESPECIALLY THE INDIANS WHO HAD THROWN IN THEIR LOT WITH BRITISH HONG KONG FOR GENERATIONS, BE GIVEN A BETTER DEAL BECAUSE NOT BEING CHINESE, 'THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY SHARE THE SAME POSITIVE FEELINGS OF CHINESE IN HONG KONG ABOUT HONG KONGS RETURN TO THE MOTHEPLAND'. THESE SENTIMENTS WERE ECHOED BY JOHN SWAINE, STEPHEN CHEONG AND DESMOND LEE WHO AGREED THAT THE NATIONALITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE ETHNIC
MINORITIES WERE LESS THAN SATISFACTORY.
7. JOHN SWAINE WAS SUPPORTED BY MARTIN LEE IN HIS PLEA FOR SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION OF THE REQUEST FOR RIGHT OF ABODE IN
THE UK FROM THE 400 EX-SERVICEMEN IN HONG KONG.
E. NEED TO ENSURE CONTINUED EASE OF TRAVEL OF HOLDERS OF
CERTIFICATES OF IDENTITY.
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