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INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF BN (0) PASSPORTS
1. We have begun consideration of how to implement
Ministerial commitments to do all that we can to ensure
international acceptability of BN (0) passports.
2. Having consulted NTD, we think that we could best
achieve our aims by adopting the procedures which were
used to explain the new categories of nationality created
by the BNA (1981)
(1981) to overseas governments and to missions
in London. We would ask our overseas posts to transmit
Third Person Notes to their host governments to explain
the new status.
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Concurrently, we would brief missions in
London on the same lines. We think we should couple this
briefing with approaches at the political level in
key
foreign countries to emphasise the importance of the
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