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FROM THE AMBASSADOR
Craig L Fuller Esq Chief of Staff
Office of the Vice President
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Room 272
17th and Pennsylvania NW Washington DC 20501
Dear Waing,
BRITISH EMBASSY,
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
TELEPHONE: (202) 462-1340
O copy to HKD, FUO
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25 October 1985 P
My Gomersall
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Thank you.
The Vice President was in Hong Kong when the Hong Kong Government announced on 17 October that, as a consequence of the Nationality Provisions of the Sino-British Agreement on Hong Kong, it would begin the issuing of British National
July 1987.
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(Overseas) Passports with el-1987::
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On that day the Vice-President took the opportunity of a press conference to announce that the US Government
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would accept this document. His statement was widely reported and warmly welcomed in Hong Kong.
I have been asked formally to convey the grateful thanks of the British and Hong Kong Government for both the speed and the substance of his announcement!
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CC:
The Hon M Armacost Under Secretary for Political Affairs Department of State
bcc: Governor, Hong Kong
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