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POSITION OF BN (0)s AFTER 1997
No reason to believe that BN(0) passport holders will be
be expelled from Hong Kong after 1907: veet majority will of course be Chinese citizens.
If an individual BN (0) passport holder were expelled would have to consider his or her
the in
all of position circumstances.
light
the
Unhelpful to speculate about wholly hypothetical situation.
More generally Sir Geoffrey Howe told the Foreign Affairs Committee in 1989 that if, against all expectations, the worst were to happen after 1997, the UK with its special responsibilities for the colony would have The Government stands to respond to that.
fully by that assurance.
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