HK 2AFY
HONG KONG
SUPPLEMENTARIES
Nationality
There will be
full a
1.
opportunity to discuss
is
nationality questions when the draft Order in Council
the House in December.
The Order follows
debated in exactly the lines forecast when we debated the Hong Kong
Act.
It will create the status of British National
(Overseas) which British Dependent Territories Citizens by virtue of a connection with Hong Kong will be entitled
to hold after 30 June 1997.
Vietnamese Refugees
Resettlement
(a)
2.
Following
Our own decision to accept some 500
Vietnamese refugees, mostly
for from Hong Kong,
resettlement in the UK (announced in September in
Government White Paper in response to SCORRI report "Refugees and Asylum with Special Reference to the Vietnamese") we are actively pressing other
resettlement countries to tak e additonal numbers
from Hong Kong.
(If pressed: too early yet to response to these approaches)
asses S overall
(b) Closed Camps
SCORRI's
in present circumstances,
that recommendation
closed
to
camp
Regret not possible,
accept policy should be ended. Believe that abolition of policy would give rise to new influx of refugees from Vietnam, thereby causing unacceptable and
unmanageable
refugee camps.
rise
in population of Hong Kong's