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SPEAKING NOTE
HONG KONG: NA TI ONAL ITY ORDER IN COUNCIL
SPEAKING NOTE FOR USE WITH HOME OFFICE MINI STERS
1.
in
Governor has now advised that, because of the delay
laying before Parliament the Revised Order in Council, "we have reached point where only meeting all three LegCo requests will deal with the dissatisfaction in Hong Kong on these issues
unless some conclusions a re reached soon this affair
will leave a deep sense of despression and abandonment."
2.
Deeply
concerned about this.
Managed with great
difficul ty to retain the confidence of Hong Kong people throughout the negotiation the agreement with the Chinese.
it will be
difficult,
I f we do not
retain
it,
eno mously
probably impossible, to implement the agreement, maintain stability and prosperity in Hong Kong, and hand the territory
over to the Chinese in good order
in good order in 1997. Accept that there
risks in agreeing to LegCo's requests on
citizenship for non-ethnic minority, but
for HMG to agree to the se
a re
some
endorsement and
strongly believe it
is
necessa ry
requests in order to di scharge our
responsibilities
towards
Hong Kong.
ENDORSEMENT S
3. Our preferred fomula is "The holder of this passport does
not
certificate
require a vi sa
entry or
to visit the United
Kingdom."
To meet your officials' concerns, following discussions with Hong Kong officials last month, we agreed to
the preamble "In accordance with the United Kingdom Immigration
Rules". Attorney General's office have advised that, unless we add "current" to the preamble, there would be a "not negligible
risk" that, if the Government later tried to impo se a vi sa