NLSAAL (7)
UNDERTAKINGS SCHEME
Home Secretary does have discretion in certain limited cases to
grant certain rights of admission for Crown Servants.
WHAT WILL BE DONE FOR KEY BUSINESSMEN AND PROFESSIONALS
Clearly a particularly important group which is vital to Hong
Kong's continuing success. These are the people whose talents are
most in demand elsewhere and who are emigrating. Precisely this problem that our nationality scheme is intended to address.
INTERNATIONAL SOLUTION HMG SHOULD MOBILISE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
(FAC RECOMMENDATION)
there
We recognise that the people of Hong Kong need to be given the
strongest possible assurance that, should the worst occur,
would be help for those in need of a home of last resort.
In such circumstances, we would mobilise the international
community to help us if the numbers leaving Hong Kong were larger
than we could cope with alone.
We have already raised the matter on a number of occasions,
including the Madrid European Council and the Paris Economic Summit,
as well as in bilateral contacts.
I also raised it with colleagues at the recent Commonwealth
Heads of Government Meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
EC ASPECTS
Right of abode in the UK would not in itself allow Hong Kong
people to settle elsewhere in the EC whether before or after 1992.
But true that once they have been granted British citizenship,
they would then be free to work and settle in other EC countries.