British Embassy
CONFIDENTIAL
Britannia House rue Joseph II 28 1040 Brussels
Telephone (02) 217 90 00
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DFB Le Breton Esq
Nationality and Treaty Department
FCO
HKK 340%
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
2 3 OCT 1986
DESK OFFICER INDEX
PA
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Your reference
Our reference 343/1
Date 6 October 1986
spoke to me. Penta He said the point
was
YOUR LETTER OF 23 SEPTEMBER: HONG KONG BDTC'S AND BN (0)'S: FACILITATING TRAVEL TO THIRD COUNTRIES
I delivered a Note Verbale from the Embassy to the Belgian MFA, together with a copy of the Annex to your letter and spoke as instructed to Lacroix (Service Circulation des Personnes et Service Légalisation) on 3 October.
2. Lacroix recalled the VAA meeting in London last June (FCO telno 1177 to Hong Kong), when the British Nationality Act had been discussed. He mentioned that he would be having a bilateral with the Dutch shortly. Although there would probably be insufficient time to include a discussion of BN (0) status on the agenda, he assumed the Dutch would also have our material by then.
3. In the context of the Schengen Agreement, Lacroix said that there had been no new discussion of visa requirements for Hong Kong BDTCs. He thought that the new general French visa measures would need time to settle before the discussion Zon individual issues such as Hong Kong would be resumed
under Schengen.
4. Lacroix was interested to hear of the proposed British requirement for visas for visitors from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria. He thought that this measure would greatly help Belgian control of transit passengers from these countries. But he was still concerned at the difficulty which the Belgian Embassy in London appeared to have in confirming whether visitors from these and other non-visa countries also had a right to return to the UK when applying for Belgian visas. I said that any conditions on
was simply a go-ahead a visitor's stay in the UK or his ability to re-enter, would from HK to act, not
question of to take.
be stamped in the visitor's passport.
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5.
Prior to my call on Lacroix, I spoke to Nigel French (HKGO, Brussels) about the offer to send a BDTC member of staff to European posts in support of our demarches and to inform him of the action being taken. French said that the offer still stood, although he was awaiting instructions from Hong Kong on this point.
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