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TRANSCRIPT I SELECT COMMITTEE ON HONG KONG
24 MAY 1989
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MR PETER SHORE:
You said in reply to Mr Lawrence that in relation to immigration from third countries, leaving on one side that is the whole business of opening up the 250 million other Buropeans, in relation to third countries you said that broadly our policies were the same in relation to
immigration control.
I have a question to put to you directly on that.
Is it not the case that the inhabitants of Macau are deemed to be Portuguese citizens and therefore, because Portugal is a member of the BC, will also have free access
Is that 60? and right of entry into the United Kingdom.
KR RENTON:
Yes it is. But at the danger of being hair- splitting, I make a difference between the comment that you just made and the point that I was making about our immigration policies being by and large comparable to
those of other BC countries.
It is the nationality policy of the Portuguese, has
I understand it for a long time, been different to ours, arguably the French have a different nationality policy as well, you may want to ask the Foreign and Commonwealth
Secretary about it.