Disp
Aiminded
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FROM:
Draft submissin
pour Beds
A M LAYDEN, HKD
388
Dr Wilson
PS/Mr Renton
Private Secretary
DATE:
21 March 1986
CC:
Sir W Harding
Mr Fifoot
HKM 040/4
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
2 4 MAR 1986
HONG KONG: NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL'
PROBLEM
INDEX
-ICER
PA
REGISTRY Action Taken
A
B C
D
1.
•
Following my submission of 19 March, we have received the
Home Secretary's letter of that date and have consulted the
Governor. In his response, Sir E Youde indicates that, because
of the delay in laying the Revised Order before Parliament, and
growing speculation about the reasons for
for this "we have reached
a point where only meeting all three LegCo requests will deal
with the dissatisfaction in Hong Kong on these issues" He
on to ex plain that to end up with no endorsement would
a serious crisis; to produce an endorsement including
the offending preamble would cause widespread bitterings and
suspicion; and to refuse British citizenship to non- ethnic
minorities who would otherwise become stateless would cause
strong dissatisfaction and remain "like a grumbling appendix"
for the future.
goes
produce
RECOMMENDATION
2.
I recommend
that Ministers
should make a further attempt
to convince Home Office Ministers that the difficulties they
raised about the passport endorsement, and
have
British citizenship to
the non-ethnic Chinese
about granting
minority, a re