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John Lyttle Esq
Secretary for Public Affairs
Lambeth Palace
LONDON
SE1 7JU
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Thank you for your letter of 15 June enclosing one from
Mr Eric Ho, President of the Welfare Leaque on behalf of the Eurasian community in Hong Kong.
Mr Ho has written to Members of both Houses of Parliament
setting out the case for amending the British Nationality
(Hong Kong) Bill to make special provision for the
the Eurasian community in the territory. It is argue that Eurasians may be at risk when sovereignty over the
territory reverts to the People's Republic of China in
1997, because of their antecedence. For this reason,
Mr Ho asks that those Eurasians who claim to be the
direct descendants of Britons should be registrable as
British citizens.
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Ministers have given careful consideration to the
position of the Eurasian Community. However, it is the. Government/3 view that If any Eurasians are not to be
regarded as "Chinese" after 1997, the same safeguards
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