DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
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1. Many thanks for your letter of 12 January about the
possible sale of Permanent Residency Certificates to Hong
Kong people seeking safe haven for flight before or after
1997.
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Our official line is that there will inevitably be that there will inevitably be
Hong Kong people who wish to have assurances of a refuge
elsewhere in case of a breakdown in the arrangements
guaranteed under the Joint Declaration.
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It is in our and
the
Hong Kong's interests that these people should obtain
such assurances, since only then will they stay in Hong
HUAINST NEW BACKURUUND WE WO CUTMINE LIAVE Kong. For this reason we have no objection to any scheme
that offers what is in effect an "insurance policy":
provision of residency/citizenship elsewhere to be
exercised only if necessary. We would be more doubt ful
akout any resettlement sehemes which insiston a
residency requirement as a means of qualification for a
new residency/citizenship document These woul d
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