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Nationality of ethnic minorities
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Ms Emily LAU welcomed Dr Simon Vickers, Mr Keith
KWOK and Mr K S CHEUNG to the meeting, The following
points were made by representatives of the Administration :
(a) Members' views on the subject as expressed at the
recent motion debate in the Legislative Council
had been conveyed to Britain as the grant of
British citizenship was a matter for Ber
Majesty's Government. In conveying the views,
the Hong Kong Government had asked for them to be
considered seriously but not made any specific
recommendation on the issue partly because this
might be inappropriate and partly because of the
lack of a clear position of the Counzi) (e.g
were Members asking for special consideration by
RMG or actual preference for Indian and Pakistani
BDTCS over HK Chinese BDTCS for any passports
available). It had however asked the British
Government to note Members' strong feeling.
(b) The Hong Kong Government did not keep record of
its people's ethnic origin and would not wish to
probe, in principle e.g. on part-ethnicity, and
therefore did not have information on the exact
number of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.