FCS/86/032
HKD
CONFIDENTIAL
Pin
246)
vc: Ps
du. Pofell.
ps/nirRonioक Sirlo. Harding
Drilson
NTD MVD
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT
HKK 040/4
RECEIVEL MEGISTRY
1 1FEB 1986
DESK OFF CER
INDEX
Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council
227)
Thank you for your letter of 31 January.
ken
am grateful for your agreement to look
carefully at the requests made by the Hong Kong
Legislative Council. It is indeed of great import-
ance that we carry Hong Kong opinion with us on this,
so far as is possible.
My officials are in contact with yours about the wording of a possible endorsement in the BN (O)
passport. We were most grateful for your department's
agreement to the line taken by Tim Renton at his press
conference in Hong Kong, which indicated acceptance
of the principle of an endorsement subject to finding
suitable wording. This has done a certain amount
to calm sentiment in Hong Kong: but public opinion
there will be waiting very anxiously for an eventual
decision on the wording.
Hong Kong officials have now visited the UK and provided your officials with further information
on the non-Chinese BDTCs and ex-servicemen. I fully
accept that these requests present great difficulties.
However it is also true that feelings in Parliament
are strong on both issues.
/I would