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FROM: A C Galsworthy
DATE: 8 May 1985
Mr Fairweather, ECD (I)
Cc: Dr Wilson
Mr Barrington
Mr Partridge, NTD
Mr Cambridge, MVD
Mr Sanderson, WIAD
Mr Adam Fergusson
Mr Eaton, Legal Advisers
Mrs Denza, Legal Advisers Mr Grainger, Legal Advisers
CFP STYLE PASSPORT : BRITISH NATIONALS WITHOUT EC RIGHTS
1.
2.
(43
Please refer to your minute of 30 April to Mr Partridge.
reasons
in
para
strongly endorse
i.e. that:
the
For the
I given
3 below,
conclusions in your draft submission and attachment,
(a)
the
issue
of "second could we
not countenance passports to British Nationals without EC rights;
class"
(b) such
persons
should be issued with
the European Look-Alike
CFP.
3.
is
an
case. There
Hong Kong, as you say, is a particularly sensitive
undercurrent of suspicion there that, following the signature
of the Sino-British
distance themselves
from
agreement on
Hong Kong.
Hong
Kong's
future, HMG will
We
need to
counter
such
Το
•
suspicions and to avoid taking any action which might fuel
issue any type of "second class" passport,
(who will be eligible to use
BDTC
passports
either to Hong Kong BDTCs
until 30
to before 1 July 1997,
Nationality British new
to
such BDTC's
who choose,
reflecting
the
June 1997) or
obtain
(Overseas)
passports
status would
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