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11 NOV 1993
TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG,
TELNO 948
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OF 051723Z NOVEMBER 93
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
YOUR TELNO 1709: LEGCO MOTION TO BE MOVED BY
EMILY LAU
1.
We agree with the line to take on part (a) of Emily Lau's motion as set out in paragraph 4 of your TUR.
2. On (b), we have consulted the Home Office. Grateful if you could take the following line on the position of BN (0)s after 1997:
No reason to believe that BN (0) passport holders will be expelled from Hong Kong after 1997; vast majority will of course be Chinese citizens.
If an individual BN (0) passport holder were expelled, HMG would consider his or her position in the light of all the
circumstances.
- It is not sensible to speculate in any detail about a wholly hypothetical situation. Sir Geoffrey Howe told the Foreign Affairs Committee in 1989 that if, against all expectations, the worst were to happen after 1997, the United Kingdom with its special responsibilites for the colony would have to respond to that. The Government stands fully by that assurance.
3.
The Home Office remind us that Mrs Lau raised with the Home Secretary in August the implications of the Chinese authorities' treatment of Han Dong Fang for BN (0)s after 1997. The Home Secretary's reply of 5 October (copied to the Governor) touched on this point the line to take builds on this.
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