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8 JAN 1986
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TO DESKBY 070100Z HONG KONG
TELNO 27
OF 061730Z JANUARY 86
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
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Action Taken
YOUR TELNOS 17 AND 36-37: WHITE PAPER ON THE DRAFT NATIONALITY
ORDER 1986
1.
WE NOTE THE TERMS OF THE LEGCO MOTION AND OF YOUR
INTENTION THAT OFFICIAL MEMBERS SHOULD SUPPORT IT. WE SHOULD BE
GRATEFUL FOR CLARIFICATION ON TWO POINTS, ON WHICH IT SEEMS TO US
THAT THE TERMS OF THE LETTER GO BEYOND THE PROPOSALS THAT YOU
HAVE HITHERTO ADVOCATED TO US.
2.
OF AN
UK.
IN THE FIRST PLACE MISS DUNN'S LETTER REQUESTS THE GRANT
UNQUALIFIED RIGHT' OF BN(0) PASSPORT HOLDERS TO VISIT THE
THIS SEEMS TO US TO GO CONSIDERABLY BEYOND THE TERMS OF THE
ENDORSEMENT WHICH YOU HAVE PRESSED FOR, AND, AS YOU KNOW, IS NOT
POSSIBLE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE UK IMMIGRATION ACT, SINCE
BN(0)S WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE IMMIGRATION RULES. THEIR POSITION
WILL IN FACT BE THE SAME AS THAT OF BDTCS.
3.
THE SECOND POINT IS THE UNEQUIVOCAL ASSERTION IN MISS
DUNN'S LETTER THAT HMG SHOULD GRANT FULL BRITISH CITIZENSHIP TO
THOSE WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE STATELESS. OUR UNDERSTANDING HAS
BEEN THAT YOUR VIEW HITHERTO HAS BEEN THAT SUCH A COURSE WOULD BE
DIVISIVE, AND WOULD LOOK LIKE A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN THE
JOINT DECLARATION. THE ASSERTION IN MISS DUNN'S LETTER IS IN
FACT BASED ON SOME MISCONCEPTIONS: IN THE FIRST PLACE CHINESE
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