24 MAY '89 23:21 FROM COI TECH RADIO
TRANSCRIPT J: SELECT COMMITTEE RE HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989
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CHAIRMAN:
We want to coDE to that as well.
Let us wind up this general section, if we may, by
seeking from you an actual statistic: how many people in
Hong Kong are eligible for British Dependent Territory
passports or BHO passports? How many actually bold a
BDTC or BNO passport and, finally, how many of these are
non-Chinese?
TIM RESTON:
The answer to the first is three-and-a-quarter
adlion and the same auswer applies potentially to the
second because there is no reason why every BDTC in Hong
Kong should not, if they wish, convert to a BNO passport,
but as you would know, Mr.Chairman, that has to be done
before 1 July 1997 and speaking from memory I cannot for
the moment lay my finger on the statistic
at this stage applied for BNO passports.
latest information that we have.
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it is 60,000
That is the
CHAIRMAN:
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My final question I am sorry to put these really
basic statistics at least for this Committee how many of
these are non-Chinese?
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