XN000022-1989-01-11 — Page 44

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989

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STEVE

AGAIN. MAJESTY'S

VINES: CAN I JUST ASK YOU THE SPECIFIC QUESTION

HER DID THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT RAISE ITEMS OF CONCERN TO GOVERNMENT?

DIALOGUE NATURALLY SENIOR

WITH

FORMS OF

OF

HAS

STATE

LORD GLENARTHUR: WE HAVE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT

CHINESE THE

AUTHORITIES. THE SECRETARY

MET THE GOVERNOR HERE SPEAKS TO HIS OPPOSITE NUMBER.

OFFICIALS IN PEKING. CHINESE

I HAVE

THE RAISED

MATTER AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT PERSONALLY WITH MY CHINESE OPPOSITE NUMBER, A NUMBER OF POINTS ARE PUT ACROSS.

AIM

FUTURE

CAN

FEEL AGREEMENT

PEOPLE ABODE.

DON'T THIS

TO THE AGNES LAM

I HAVE GOT TWO QUESTIONS RELATING (SCMP): CONFIDENCE OF HONG KONG PEOPLE. THE FIRST ONE IS, LORD GLENARTHUR, YOU SAID IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON JANUARY 20, 1986 THAT THE WHOLE OF THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION WAS TO PROVIDE A SECURE

THEY FOR

THE RESIDENTS IN HONG KONG, ONE IN WHICH ALL

AND

AND CAN CONTINUE TO LIVE AND PROSPER,

THE CONFIDENT GUARANTEES THAT. IT IS QUITE CLEAR NOW THAT HONG KONG SEE THAT AND THEY WANT TO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE RIGHT OF WAS SHOWN BY THE FACT THAT ABOUT 45,000 PEOPLE EMIGRATED SO MY QUESTION IS: DOES BRITAIN FEEL SUFFICIENTLY CONCERNED ABOUT

ON THE TERRITORY'S BRAIN DRAIN PROBLEM AND TO RECONSIDER ITS POLICY RIGHT

THE EXAMPLE OF OF ABODE

FOLLOWS FOR HONG KONG PEOPLE, AND PORTUGAL WHICH WILL EXTEND CITIZENSHIP TO THE PEOPLE OF MACAU?

WHAT BEEN

I SAID IN

LAST YEAR.

THE

BY PRECISELY

LORD GLENARTHUR: THANK YOU. THE QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HONG KONG IS OF COURSE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND I STAND

THERE 1986.

HAVE INDEED I THINK THAT THE FACT THAT ENCOURAGING

WAY ASPECTS OF MANY SO

THE

THAT THE CHINESE OF AUTHORITIES HAVE APPROACHED THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THEIR HALF

SIGN JOINT DECLARATION IS A VERY POSITIVE SINO-BRITISH I KNOW THAT THE QUESTION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IMMIGRATION THE

NATIONALITY ACT IS ONE THAT HAS BRITISH

CONCERN.

CAUSED

A

INDEED.

RULES CERTAIN

OVER

THE

OLD

ΤΟ

ON

THE NOW AND

OF

I DON'T THINK IT IS WORTH GOING AMOUNT GROUND ALL OVER AGAIN, NOR DO I THINK THAT IT IS REALLY CORRECT COMPARE, AS YOUR QUESTION IMPLIES, WHAT THE UNITED KINGDOM DOES

BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL THAT ASPECT WITH THE PORTUGUESE PASSPORT ISSUE.

VERY HAVE

THEY HAVE HAD A

DIFFERENT HAD A VERY DIFFERENT HISTORY. CONSTITUTIONAL EVOLUTION AND ONE RESULT IS THAT BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE

OF COURSE I LAWS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VERY DIFFERENT. NATIONALITY

HONG HOW STRONGLY

KONG PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THE WHOLE NATIONALITY I REALLY QUESTION BUT AS I HAVE SAID IT HAS BEEN MUCH DEBATED AND DON'T THINK THERE IS ANY POINT IN GOING OVER THE OLD GROUND AGAIN.

KNOW

THE GRANT FAITHFULLY

AND PAPER

MY SECOND AGNES LAM:

QUESTION TS THAT TALKING ABOUT BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT, SECTION 4(5) ENABLES THE GOVERNMENT TO AUTOMATIC

то CITIZENSHIP

HONG KONG RESIDENTS WHO HAVE

SERVED THE

ADMINISTRATIVE CROWN AND THIS IS RESTRICTED TO THE DISCIPLINARY SERVICES, AND ACCORDING TO A RECENT REPORT IN OUR

54 LAST WEEK IT SHOWS THAT ONLY PUBLISHED

OF THE APPLICANTS WERE WERE EX-SERVICES. AND WHAT GRANTED THEIR CITIZENSHIP AND ALL BUT 8

IS COMING AND I AM ASKING IS COULD BRITAIN BE MORE GENEROUS AS 1997

HONG KONG EXTEND THIS PRIVILEGE TO OTHER CIVIL SERVANTS OR EVEN THE PUBLIC AS A WHOLE?

/LORD GLENARTHUR: