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30 APR 1998
LNMDAN 9821 PEHPAN 8407
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INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
INFO PRIORITY UKREP JLG HONG KONG
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MFA PRESS CONFERENCE, 26 APRIL.
HONG KONG: BRITISH NATIONALITY SCHEME.
1.
IN REPLY TO A QUESTION ABOUT THE SECOND READING OF THE BRITISH NATIONALITY BILL, MFA SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE MFA HAD, ON MANY OCCASIONS, STATED THE CHINESE POSITION ON THE UNILATERAL DECISION BY HMG TO CHANGE THE NATIONALITY OF SOME HONG KONG CITIZENS. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WOULD CERTAINLY NOT IGNORE THAT MOVE.
2. HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL ASKED HOW THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT REGARDED THE RECENT RESTATING BY HMG OF ITS INTENTION TO SEEK OTHER COUNTRIES SUPPORT IN GIVING PASSPORTS AND RIGHT OF ABODE TO HONG KONG PEOPLE AS THE UK ITSELF HAD DONE. WAS THIS REGARDED AS INTERNATIONALISING THE HONG KONG QUESTION? HOW WOULD THE PRC RESPOND ? SPOKESMAN REPLIED THAT THE CHINESE POSITION ON THIS WAS CLEAR AND THAT CHINESE NARTIONALITY LAW HAD UNEQUIVOCAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE ACQUISITION, RENUNCIATION AND RESTORATION OF CHINESE NATIONALITY. ANY ATTEMPT TO INTERNATIONALISE THE HONG KONG QUESTION WOULD RUN COUNTER TO THE PROVISIONS AND SPIRIT OF THE JOINT DECLARATION AND COUNTER TO THE NORMS GOVERNING INTERNATIONAL LAW. THAT WAS SOMETHING THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT COULD NEVER ACCEPT.
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ADVANCE
5
MR MCLAREN
HD/HKD
1
1
HD/FED
1
MR FIFOOT LEGAL ADVISERS RESIDENT CLERK
1
1
ΜΑΙΝ
67
.HK AGREEMENT NATIONALITY LIMITED
1
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8
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1
HD/NTD
1
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