Thaukky
Jail,
Mv Mathis to be aware on nationality, package 2) Mr Woodrow / Miss
Please put together u/c
me
X was presumably
briefing
covered in buieping
I think so. See File bit supp
nationality / BNS (hullpoints / backgnund). I will then adapt /update in live with
Dec 1989 - Jam 1990.
س
the moment round of leglo calls & draft wrening letter (finion 20/1). Plus Ethnic minority files.
20/1.
0124
see Jolio 788
on HKD 340/8 (1989)
British Embassy
Bonn
18
14 January 1993
Deborah Barnes-Jones Hong Kong Department
FCO
Dear Deborah,
Mis Bernes Jones
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 77
5300 Bonn 1
Telephone: (0228) 23 40 61 Telex: 886887 (a/b BRINF-D)
Facsimile: (0228) 234070, 237058
Briefing
material attached. I
Chang
have not included Bull points Cover the same ground
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general
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FCO TELNO 4 TO BANGKOK: VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS: RETURNS TO VIETNAM
1.
We took action as instructed by TUR. Michael Ebel, the Desk Officer responsible for Hong Kong in the MFA, thanked us for the information and said he would circulate it further. The statistics for migrants last year were indeed good.
2.
I need your help on another Hong Kong matter. Recently, Count Otto von Lambsdorff, Chairman of the Free Democrats, visited Hong Kong. On returning to Bonn, he put a number of questions to the MFA which they need our help to answer.
3.
Von Lambsdorff is concerned about the fate of the British passport holders in Hong Kong. Who is eligible for UK citizenship? Who is not and what are the criteria for eligibility? What is likely to happen to those not eligible come 1997? Are there people in Hong Kong who hold both British and Chinese passports and what are their citizenship rights? understand that von Lambsdorff is particularly concerned about Pakistani and Indian British passport holders. Overall, the MFA would be grateful for our view of the citizenship question. Do we intend to discuss it in the EC (we may already have done so, I did not know)?
I
4. I imagine that by British passport holders, von Lambsdorff means British Dependent Territories' citizens.
C W Ross
Yours ever,
Curne
Second Secretary (Political)
cc: Political Section, Hong Kong
IN
Chris Kelly Esq, B4 Division, Home Office
HKD 340/6
03FEB 1993
Tane.
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