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CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
HKK 040/28.
JF Nicholson Esq
Passport Department
Home Office
Clive House
LONDON SW1
Telephone 01-
01 233 3918
Your reference
Our reference
Date
24 June 1985
Dear Jim,
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Thank you for your letter of 17 June to Jan Priest. I enclose a draft telegram to Hong Kong commenting on their telno
1.
980 based on your comments and those of N & TD and our Legal Advisers. You may wish to use this as a basis for our discussion of passport matters at our meeting on the nationality Order-in-Council in the week beginning 1 July. If however you have any drafting or technical points you may wish to make those prior to the meeting.
2.
I note that Tony Galsworthy's letter of 6 June to John Boyd in Hong Kong on the international acceptance of BN (0) passports has not been copied to you. I enclose a copy which I hope will clarify our proposals for ensuring acceptability of BN (0) passports in third countries.
HKK 040/28 140/28
RECEIVED. REGISTÁY
2 5 JUN 1985
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