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1. FOLLOWING A REVIEW OF OUR POLICY ON THE ADMISSION TO HONG KONG OF EAST EUROPEAN AND SOVBLOC NATIONALS, WE HAVE DECIDED TO DELETE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (GDR), PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN (PDRY), CZECHOSLOVAKIA (CZE), HUNGARY AND POLAND FROM OUR LIST OF COMMUNIST COUNTRIES IN DSP VOL 52. THE EFFECTIVE DATE WILL
BE 16 JULY 1990.
2. AS A RESULT OF THIS CHANGE, THE SEPARATE VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR EAST GERMANY WILL BE ABOLISHED. EAST GERMANS WILL BE TREATED AS WEST GERMANS. FOR NATIONALS OF THE FORMER PDRY, THEY WILL BE TREATED FOR VISA PURPOSES IN THE SAME MANNER AS WAS THE YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC.
3. FOR THE EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES OF POLAND, HUNGARY AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA, VISA PROCESSING TIME WILL BE REDUCED TO 10 WORKING DAYS AND PURPOSE OF VISIT WILL BE RELAXED TO INCLUDE TOURISM AND
VISITS FOR PLEASURE.
4. GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD INFORM POSTS OF THE FOREGOING CHANGES AND
ARRANGE FOR AMENDMENT OF DSP VOL 52 ON THE FOLLOWINGS :
(A) DELETE THE ABOVE FIVE COUNTRIES FROM THE LIST OF COMMUNIST
COUNTRIES IN PARA 6.1
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(B) AMEND ANNEX I FOR GDR AS NO VISA IS REQUIRED FOR A VISIT OF UP
TO ONE MONTH:
(C) YEMEN ARAB REPUBLIC IN PARA 6.7 SHOULD BE REPLACED BY THE NEW
NAME REPUBLIC OF YEMEN AND
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