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"BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE" IN HONG KONG
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F I am grateful to you for giving me the chance to
comment on the idea put forward by the Hong Kong Branch
for a "British Representative Office" in the territory.
It is not at all clear to me what problems Mr Allison has
believes) with the present arrangements, or what he such an office
would do in practice.
You might nevertheless like to use
some of the points below if Mr Allison seeks your
reaction to the idea.
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In many
To state the obvious first, Hong Kong is under
British sovereignty and jurisdiction until 1997.
ways this puts British nationals resident in Hong Kong on
a similar footing to British nationals resident in the
UK, subject of course to variations in local laws and
custom. The question of providing consular protection,
as this is understood in relation to British nationals in
a foreign country, evidently does not arise. Fwould Dopefully
otte
hope that British expatriates do not rule encounter