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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1989

CATEGORISATION FOR RIGHT OF ABODE "UNACCEPTABLE"

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CATEGOR) SATION OF HONG KONG PEOPLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF GRANTING RIGHT OF ABODE IN BRITAIN WOULD DE UNFAIR. IRRESPONSIBLE AND EVEN DANGEROUS. DR THE HON LEONG CHE-HUNG SAL

TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

"PERHAPS IT SHOULD BE MADE CLEAR THAT IT HAS NEVER BEEN THE WISH NOR THE STAND OF OMELCO, AND I AM SURE THE PEOPLE OF HONG HONG TOO, TO CONSIDER, LET ALONE TAKE, CATEGORISATION AS OUR FALL BACK POSITION ON THE ISSUE OF RIGHT OF ABODE.' DR LEONG SAIN IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DURING THE DEBATE ON THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE REPORT.

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HE NOTED THAT THERE HAD BEEN PLENTY OF MENTION THAT SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS WOULD BE GIVEN THE RIGHT OF ABODE. THE REASON (IVEN WAS THAT THERE WAS A NEED TO GIVE ASSURANCE TO THESE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY WOULD STAY TO SERVE AND RUN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT. IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WAS A NEED TO GIVE THEM AN INSURANCE POLICY.

GOVERNMENT BY OTHERS IN

"IT DOES NOT STAND TO REASON THAT HER MAJESTY'S COULD FEEL THE NEED FOR INSURANCE BY SOME AND YET NOT HONG LON HE SAID.

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HE SAID SUCH A CATEGORISATION WAS ALSO DANGEROUS.

IN A SITUATION WHERE THERE WERE THE "HAVES" AND THE "HAVE NOTS" OR WHEN IT WAS DECLARED THAT "ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL, BUT SOMR ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS" DR LEONG FAILED TO SEE HOW THE "HAVES" IN THIS CASE SENIOR CROWN SERVANTS COULD COMMAND THE RESPECT OF AND

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TO GOVERN THE "HAVE NOTS" IN THE FUTURE.

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"THE RIGHT OF ABODE HAS TO BE CONCEIVED AS AN INHERENT HUMAN RIGHT FOR ALL THOSE BORN OR NATURALISED AS BRITISH SUBJECTS IN HONG KONG OR IN BRITAIN. AS SIGNATORY TO THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES. BRITAIN SHOULD RESTORE THESE RIGHTS TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG, HE SAID.

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HE NOTED THAT THE FOREIGN SECRETARY STATED THAT IN CHINA HAD DESTROYED ALL THE GOODWILL SHE HAD CREATED IN THE YEARS.

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"I WOULD SAY THIS TO HIM: THAT WITH A STROKE OF THE PEN TO DENY HONG KONG BRITISH SUBJECTS THE RESTORATION OF THEIR RIGHT

AT THIS POINT OF TIME, THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE WIPED OFF THE RESPECT THAT HONG KONG PEOPLE

HAVE ATTACHED ΤΟ HER IN THE LAST CENTURY,"

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