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true, but their anxieties about where they might be able to go and those anxieties are certainly there.
remain
Q:
Have
We've heard that passports and citizenships and rights of abode are being made available to people in Hong Kong
on the one hand and France on some countries as diverse ag
these reports? of other.
from
The
Has
your
any you picked Up administration any information on that?
Governor:
in
how you
There are a great many reports which appear the Hong Kong press and indeed in specialists magazines about might be able to get a passport for various places in the world.
newspapers, other point about France, I've
I've seen a report in the that's all I've seen on it.
The
but
Ian Taylor:
Sir David could I just clarify something which
in a sense
had appeared in this mornings papers which is that you.
following rather than been perceived by certain journaliste to be
OF leading the pressure on the British government to change the idea
You think. To what extent, do status of nationality and passport.
the British Over the next few years your job will be to try to alert
very
deeply government to something which the Hong Kong people feel about?
Governor:
British
I see my position as trying to do my utmost for Kong and on the interests of Hong Kong and for the people of Hong anything which I felt it right to make representations to the government in order to further those interests of the people of Kong. I would most certainly do so.
Hong
the
are
they
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Bowen Wells:
On the question of emigration and finding other places of abode and nationality, is is not a great disservice to and Australia future of Hong
Kong that countries like Canada offering these forms of passport and rights of abode because if so attract much of the talent from Hong Kong then Hong Kong itself
.country going to be wounded and not able to be quite as successful a
If that is true зurely it would be a great as it might be after 1997.
It would damage Hong disservice to this country to offer abode here. Kong very badly.
Governor:
go
Perhaps I could put it like
this because
I
TO
think this is the way that many people in Hong Kong would see it.
Australian passport to Canada or Australia to get a Canadian or
Canada or requires that person to move physically and go to live in
people Australia. that's the only way that they can do it. What many
under which have been pressing for in Hong Kong is not a situation
right of in order to get would have to move to United Kingdom, they
pre-1962 abode in United Kingdom, but a return to the situation
I effect by which they would automatically and without leaving Hong Kong
Now on Canada and Australia, perhaps have a right of abode in UK.
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