/Law.
abode for those resident in Hong Kong before the transfer of
sovereignty is assured in the Joint Declaration and the Basic
(See the attached sidelined copy of Chapter XIV of the Joint Declaration for chapter and verse). As noted in Hong
Kong's telno 2 to you of 20 October, the Basic Law makes a
similar provision (Chapter III, Article 24 attached.)
5. You may like to be aware that the Hong Kong Legislative
Council debated on 18 November a motion "that this Council
urge the government to examine the problems faced by the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong in terms of their nationality before and after 1997 and to take such steps as may be open to
it to ensure that citizens of the ethnic minorities who have
lived in Hong Kong as permanent residents for many years do
not become stateless in 1997". I attach the speech made by
the Hong Kong Government Secretary for Security which
not of course delivered by a spokesman of HMG
ground in terms we subscribe to.
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Yours
ever,
Deborah Bans toves Плиты
Deborah Barnes Jones
Hong Kong Department
CC: Mr C J Rawlinson, SAD
Mr S Vickers, Security Branch, Hong Kong Government
Srinivasan.NAT
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