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the
Minister to Mr Wardle asking
the Ho
Mr Barnes
to look again
Mr Langdon
Mr Rawsthorne Mr Walmsley
Mr Kelly
Mr Rock
Mr Dorey, FCO
Mrs Barnes Jones, FCO
Hong Kong Dept
at British citizenship for
ethunc minorities / flexibility for
was widows
HOME SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH BARONESS DUNN: 22/7 nist.
THURSDAY 15 JULY 1993
You and Mr Langdon were present today when the Home Secretary met Baroness Dunn, who was in London to speak in the House of Lords debate on the Hong Kong Orders in Council.
Ethnic minorities
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The ethnic minorities issue was one which Baroness Dunn felt would become increasingly important. She was concerned that the statement made by Charles Wardle in the adjournment debate in the House of Commons on Friday 9 July could cause a political storm in Hong Kong. She felt that the assurances given to the ethnic minorities in 1985 had, in that adjournment debate, been unacceptably narrowed. Baroness Dunn was quite clear that the original undertaking was a general one, rather than being confined simply to the ethnic minorities. For the United Kingdom Government to have narrowed it now, in the current political climate, was extremely unhelpful she said.
3 The Home Secretary began by reminding Baroness Dunn of the decision he had made recently over the issue of BDTC passport holders retaining those passports when issued with BN(0) passports, up until 1997 alongside their new BN (0) passports. He informed Baroness Dunn that he had given further consideration to the concerns of the ethnic minorities, but was clear that they could not automatically be granted British citizenship. Clear assurances had been given over the years that the individual applications of any members of this group who came under pressure to leave after 1997 would be considered sympathetically. The Government had no intention to resile from this assurance but equally it did not intend to expand it. The Home Secretary acknowledged that some held a different view, and assured Baroness Dunn that the Governor of Hong Kong was meticulous in passing on to him and to other United Kingdom colleagues the views expressed by LegCo in Hong Kong, but explained that the
that Government had consistently maintained
the assurances applied solely to the ethnic minorities. This position had not changed.
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