"The assurance which I have restated today, as the House knows, was devised expressly in response to concern about the position of members of the non-Chinese ethnic minorities in Hong Kong after 1997. However in the unlikely event that any other individual British National came under pressure to leave the Territory, I would expect the Government of the day to adopt a similarly sympathetic view."
I am copying this letter to the Governor.
Yours sincerely,
þ.p.
внед
ALASTAIR GOODLAD
Doney
(Approved by the Minister and signed in his absence by his Private Secretary, Mr Greg Dorey)