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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
10 March 1993
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香港立法局
一九九三年三月十日
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我們在此呼籲國際社會(不僅是香港政府,因為它是無力的),尤其是各締約國迫使英 國遵守這份國際協議。主席先生,港同盟強烈要求英國政府應立即無條件給與這些人士全 面的英國公民國籍身份,不應繼續推卸和拖延其道德和法律上的責任。
不過,順帶一提的是,除了這群少數非華裔居民外,我們亦看到警務處的政治部解散 後,有很多政治部的人员,由於所屬部門的名稱為「政治部」,實際上在香港將會承擔一 個十分大的風險。有政府官員認為政治部沒有參與甚麼,可能只是做一些看守的工作而 已,然而,實際上政治部的人員只是由於戴上「政治部」這頂帽子,將來可能會被人盤 問,拷打或種種形式查間,被人問:「你没有做甚麼,那麼某某人有做什麼呢?」,以獲 取所有關於整個情報架構的資料。我相信即使為了英國自己的利益,也没理由不給與政治 部的人員全面的英國國籍。另外,剛才要理覺議員提到一些戰時曾在香港被囚的戰俘及其 配偶,我們也為他們感到憂慮。故此,我和港同盟所有議員全力支持劉慧卿議員的動議。
SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Mr President, the Administration is grateful to Miss Emily LAU and the Subcommittee on Nationality for their report, and appreciates their efforts on behalf of the ethnic minorities. This subject was debated in this Council last November. But the Subcommittee has succeeded in clarifying and focussing the issue. It concentrates, rightly in my view, on the estimated 7 000 Hong Kong permanent residents who are not Chinese, but who have right of abode only in Hong Kong. The great majority of these people are of Indian origin, holding BDTC or BN(O) passports.
I agree with the point made in the report that the British Nationality Scheme does not provide the solution which would meet the concerns of all members of the ethnic minorities. Their position was considered when the British Nationality Scheme was introduced. As the report acknowledges, the British Nationality Scheme is intended for a different purpose and not for a specific ethnic minority group. It would not be possible to accommodate the 7 000 members of the ethnic minorities, comprising perhaps 2000 to 2 500 families, within the second tranche of the British Nationality Scheme, without greatly distorting the allocation and changing the objectives of the scheme.
The Administration has passed to the British Government the views. they expressed on this issue last November. We have also been reporting the deliberations of the Nationality Subcommittee. And I am aware that the chairman of the Subcommittee and other members discussed the subject with the Home Office Minister, Mr WARDLE, at the Home Office in January this year.