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RE
FROM:
D Barnes Jones
10 Jun 1993
Hong Kong Department
DATE:
7 June 1993
CC:
Mr Haywood, NTCD
Mr Rickett's
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Mr Hum
PS/Mr Goodlad
CM /1⁄2
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JUN 1993
Ms Everett, News Dept
Ms Brooks, Legal Advisers
HONG KONG NATIONALITY: ETHNIC MINORITIES
Problem
1. To respond to a letter from Mrs Tu lobbying for full British citizenship for this minority and to fulfill an
undertaking to update LegCo on "split families".
Recommendation
2. I submit 2 draft letters to Mrs Tu. I recommend that Mr
Goodlad hand over a copy of these to the LegCo Delegation
calling on him on 9 June.
Background
3. Mrs Tu's letter is part of a LegCo campaign for full British passports for non-Chinese Hong Kong residents with solely British nationality. We already have on the table a
request from LegCo (transmitted via the Hong Kong Government
(HKG) following a motion passed by LegCo in March) that the
British Government should look again at offering full British
passports to those non-Chinese Hong Kong residents with solely British nationality. A delegation from LegCo's House
Committee visits London from 8 10 June to take up this cause
sub.ethnic.NAT
JEB
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