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Strate
110
HKC3401
340/1
RECEN
STRY
23 APR 1990
REGISTRY
Motion Taken
FROM: A R Paul
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 4 April 1990
cc: PS/Lord Brabazon
Mr Gillmore
Miss Spencer
Mr Burns, News Department
Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers
Mr Whomersley, Legal Advisers
Ms Barrett, Legal Advisers
Mr McLaren PS/Mr Maude
Private Secretary}
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Sofs haree.
Mr Maude has the love to take in this brighing for 174.
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HONG KONG ASSURANCES: PRESENTATION: CHINESE ATTITUDES AND CONSULAR
PROTECTION
Problem
1. We need a line to take on consular protection for beneficiaries
of the scheme.
A
Recommendation
2. I submit a line to take. It is necessarily cautious, given the legal background below. Legal Advisers agree.
Background
3.
The root of the problem is that those Hong Kong Chinese carrying British passports are British nationals in our eyes and
Chinese nationals according to Chinese nationality law. The background paper we provided for the Secretary of State's Office meeting on 19 January recalled that because of the sensitivity of the nationality issue in Hong Kong it had been dealt with in the
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