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OUR TELNO 313: HONG KONG INDIANS
SUMMARY
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RECEIVEN
REGISTRY
1 4 MAR 1986
PFICER
PA
REGISTRY Action Taken
1. THE PRESS HAS GOT HOLD OF AND LAN REPRESENTATIONS TO SIR W
HARDING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG INDIANS.
DETAIL
2. **NEWSTIME'' (PUBLISHED IN HYDERABAD) CARRIED A REPORT ON
9 MARCH UNDER THE CAPTION 'NO DECISION ON HONG KONG INDIANS''
NT CLAIMS THAT THE GON TOOK UP THE ISSUE DURING TALKS WITH HARDING, AND QUOTES AN UNNAMED SOURCE IN THE MEA AS SAYING: WE
EXPRESSED OUR CONCERN DURING INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS''
3. THE REPORT CONTINUES THAT HARDING TOLD THE MEA THAT HMG WAS CONSIDERING VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES TO ENSURE THAT THOSE RESIDENTS
OF HONG KONG WHO WERE NON-ETHNIC CHINESE DID NOT FEEL
AFTER 1997: AND THAT NO FINAL DECISION HAD BEEN TAKEN.
4. COPY OF ARTICLE FOLLOWS BY BAG TO HKD.
WADE-GERY
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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
HD/NTD
RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)
DEP HD/PUSD
PS
PS/MR RENTON
PS/PUS
SIR W HARDING MR WILSON
COPIES TO:
THIS TELEGRAM WAS NOT ADVANCED
MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD
MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE
MR EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON
MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE.
ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.
MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
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