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Mr
Hym
PS/Mr Gogalad
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 5 July 1993
MA
$17 Alifister
HONG KONG NATIONALITY: ASSURANCES FOR THE ETHNIC MINORITIES AND
FOR ETHNIC CHINESE
Problem
1. How to ensure that the Home Office takes account of
sensitivities in Hong Kong when restating immigration assurances made by this and previous governments (Mr Wardle is meeting interested MPs and Lords at 1800 on 6 July, and there is and
Adjournment Debate on the subject on 9 July; Mr Goodlad is
likely to be asked about this by the FAC on 14 July).
Recommendation
2. That Mr Goodlad should write to Mr Wardle to draw his
attention to the points we and the Governor would like to see
the Home Office make. I submit a draft.
A
Background
3.
The Minister will recall that the Home Secretary indicated
to Miss Lau when she called on him on 9 June, that people with
joint British and Chinese nationality would fall under the terms
of the Government's undertaking (to consider with sympathy any
claim they might make for admission to the UK if they come under
pressure to leave Hong Kong and have no where else to go). (Mrs Barnes Jones' minute of 17 June, covering Home Office record of the meeting). This position was in line with assurances made in the past, although Government spokesmen have generally spoken in the context of the needs of the ethnic minority community and
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