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MIPT: THE WHITE PAPER ON THE DRAFT HONG KONG (BRITISH NATIONALITY)
ORDER 1986
1. FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF THE LETTER SENT BY MISS DUNN:
QUOTE
3 JANUARY 1986
THE WHITE PAPER ON THE DRAFT HONG KONG (BRITISH NATIONALITY)
ORDER 1986
* AM WRITING TO YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL THE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO EXPRESS THEIR DEEP CONCERN ON ISSUES RAISED
IN THIS WHITE PAPER. THAT CONCERN IS SHARED BY ALL UNOFFICIAL
MEBERS, BOTH THE 22 APPOINTED MEMBERS AND THE 24 ELECTED MEMBERS,
AND ACCURATELY REFLECTS, BELIEVE, THE VIEWS OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE RECEIVED REPORTS ABOUT THE ADJOURNMENT
DEBATE ON THE WHITE PAPER ON THE DRAFT HONG KONG (BRITISH
NATIONALITY) ORDER 1986, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL ON THE 4TH DECEMBER LAST. MY PURPOSE IN WRITING TO YOU
IS TO IMPRESS ON YOU THE IMPORTANCE WHICH LEGCO MEMBERS ATTACH TO
THIS DRAFT LEGISLATION AND THE DEEP SENSE OF UNEASE AND DISAPPOIN-
TMENT WHICH THEY AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT THE MEASURES T
PROPOSES.
THEIR WORRIES HAVE FOCUSSED ON (1) THE ACCEPTABILITY IN COUNTRIES
AROUND THE WORLD OF YET ANOTHER UNPROVEN TYPE OF BRITISH PASSPORT,
AND (P) THE PROPOSAL TO LEAVE STRANDED IN HONG KONG NEARLY 10,000
PEOPLE OF NON-CHINESE ORIGIN WITH A FORM OF BRITISH CITIZENSHIP SO CIRCUMSCRIBED AS TO MAKE IT PRACTICALLY USELESS. THERE HAS ALSO
BEEN WIDESPREAD SYMPATHY FOR THE CLAIMS BY A SMALL GROUP OF FORMER SERVICEMEN WHO DEFENDED HONG KONG ON BRITAIN'S BEHALF IN
THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
ACCEPTABILITY OF THE BN(0) PASSPORT
ON THE DAY OF THE DEBATE WE WERE ASSURED BY THE HONG KONG
GOVERNMENT THAT IT IS THE INTENTION OF HMG AND THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT
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