CONFIDENTIAL
From:
A R Paul
Private Secretary
Date:
cc:
Hong Kong Department
11 January 1990
PS/Mr Maude
PS/Lord Brabazon
Mr McLaren
Mr McQuade, NTD
Hap 34012.
RECEIVED BY RECOTRY
07 MAR 1990
NON CHINESE ETHNIC MINORITIES IN HONG KONGESK OFFICER
INDEX
PA
REGISTRY
Action Taken
Problem
A B C 1.
FILE
4.
Three letters to the Secretary of State from Mr H N Harilela, President of the Council of Hong Kong Indian Associations, about the
position of the non-Chinese ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.
Recommendation
2.
I submit a draft reply. The Home Office agree.
Background
3.
Mr Harilela's first letter, which also went to Sir Geoffrey Howe and Mr Maude, calls for the non-Chinese ethnic minorities in Hong Kong to be given British citizenship. His second letter explains that, according to the Council's latest estimate, the number of BDTCS who have no other form of nationality available to them is less than 6,000, including dependants. His third letter asks for clarification of the position of the ethnic minorities under the nationality package in the light of the Secretary of State's
Statement of 20 December.
KEWAAF
CONFIDENTIAL