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YOUR TELNOS 494 AND 638: LEGCO DEBATE ON
ETHNIC MINORITIES
ROUTINE
1. Thank you for confirmation (your second TUR) that Legco will
send a delegation to lobby for the (non Chinese) ethnic
minorities in the first part of June. You may find it useful to
know how we are thinking of handling the issue at this end.
2. We took your first TUR to constitute a formal request for Ministers to consider the representations made by Legco in their debate of 10 March on full British citizenship for the ethnic
minorities. We accordingly submitted to Ministers. Mr Goodlad
has since written to Mr Wardle at the Home Office (the lead
Department on nationality matters) to inform him about Legco's
representations and to seek his views. We have every reason to
expect that the Home Office will confirm that they see
for introducing legislation to grant citizenship to this
category.
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3. In your second TUR you recommend that any formal response
should
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