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INFO PRIORITY PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG
LU PING: COMMENTS ON NATIONALITY
PRESS REPORTS HERE OVER THE WEEKEND QUOTE LU PING AS SAYING THAT CHINA WILL NOT IMPOSE NEW RESTRICTIONS AFTER 1997 ON HONG KONG PEOPLE AWARDED PASSPORTS UNDER THE BRITISH NATIONALITY PACKAGE.
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LU OFFERED SPECIFIC REASSURANCES TO CIVIL SERVANTS BENEFITING FROM THE PACKAGE. REFERRING TO FEARS THAT THE CAREERS OF THOSE WHO OBTAINED PASSPORTS MIGHT SUFFER, LU IS REPORTED AS SAYING QUOTE THEY WILL BE ON AN EQUAL FOOTING. YOU CAN TAKE UP ANY POST AS LONG AS YOU ARE QUALIFIED. THE NATIONALITY RESTRICTIONS WILL ONLY BE APPLIED TO A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE. THEY WILL NOT BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST UNQUOTE. OFFICIALS NEED ONLY GIVE UP THE BRITISH NATIONALITY IF THEY WISHED TO HOLD PRINCIPAL POSITIONS IN THE SARG, HE ADDED.
3. LU SAID THAT BENEFICIARIES OF THE NATIONALITY SCHEME WILL STILL BE ABLE TO JOIN THE CIVIL SERVICE SO LONG AS THEY DECLARE LOYALTY TO THE SARG.
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ACCORDING TO THE REPORTS, HE ALSO SAID THAT THE
''CORRESPONDING MEASURES' AGAINST THE SCHEME WHICH THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES HAVE WARNED THEY WILL TAKE, WILL NOT BE AIMED AT INDIVIDUAL BENEFICIARIES, QUOTE PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS WILL NOT BE AFFECTED UNQUOTE.
5. COMMENT. THESE REMARKS ARE HELPFUL BOTH IN THE STATEMENT ABOUT NO DISCRIMINATION AND THE IMPLICATION THAT THE HOLDER OF A PASSPORT UNDER THE PACKAGE COULD STILL GET ONE OF THE TOP JOBS IN THE SAR BY GIVING UP THE PASSPORT. THIS HAD ALWAYS SEEMED TO BE THE PRAGMATIC SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM.
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THE SCMP, IN THE SAME FRONT PAGE ARTICLE, QUOTES A CHINESE SOURCE AS INSISTING THAT BENEFICIARIES UNDER THE SCHEME WOULD NOT BE ENTITLED TO CONSULAR PROTECTION IN HONG KONG OR CHINA AND THAT