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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1990

FIGURES ON BDTC RETURNING RESIDENTS IN UK

TOLD

THE

THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON ALISTAIR ASPREY,

HAD BEEN INFORMED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) HE

THAT AUTHORITIES

SOMB 3,500 HONG KONG UNITED KINGDOM IMMIGRATION

ADMITTED TO THE UNITED BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORIES CITIZENS WERE KINGDOM AS RETURNING RESIDENTS DURING 1989.

CHAU

YIM-PING,

HON SO FROM THE REPLYING TO A QUESTION ASPREY SAID THIS FIGURE, HOWEVER, MIGHT INCLUDE AN ELEMENT COUNTING, SINCE SOME MIGHT WELL HAVE DEPARTED AND ENTERED KINGDOM ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.

MR

OF DOUBLE THE UNITED

CONSULTED

WAS

58, BUT

MR A PREY ALSO SAID THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WAS NOT

IMMIGRATION RULE RECENT ABOUT THE

AMENDMENT TO UK INFORMED OF THE AMENDMENT BEFORE IT CAME INTO FORCE.

ADVISED

THE THAT

AMENDMENT IS

TECHNICAL

IN

HE

"WE HAVE BEEN NATURE, AND DOES NOT REPRESENT ANY CHANGE IN POLICY OR PRACTICE," ADDED.

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GOOD PROGRESS ON AIR SERVICES AGREEMENTS

* * *

PROGRESS GOOD

HAS

BEEN

MADE

IN

NEGOTIATIONS

FOR AND VARIOUS ESTABLISHMENT OF AIR SERVICE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN HONG KONG AND

RAFAEL COUNTRIES, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, THE HON HUI, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

HUI SAID IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON MARTIN LEE, MR

HONG KONG HAD SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE JOINT DECLARATION IN 1984,

(OR ASA'S) WITH THE FOUR CONCLUDED

AGREEMENTS AIR SERVICES NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, CANADA AND BRUNEI.

90.

"ANOTHER ASA IS EXPECTED TO BE SIGNED WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH

"IN ADDITION THE TEXTS OF FIVE MORE NEGOTIATED AND WILL BE SIGNED ONCE THE USUAL COMPLETED, HE SAID.

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OR

DRAFT ASA'S HAVE BEEN PROCEDURES HAVE BEEN

MR HUI SAID THAT NEGOTIATIONS WITH SEVEN OTHER BEGUN AND WERE AT VARIOUS STAGES OF PROGRESS.

PARTNERS

COUNTRIES HAD

AND

KONG'S WHEN

IT WAS EXPECTED THAT NEGOTIATIONS FOR ASA'S WITH HONG

PLACE WOULD TAKE

AS AIR SERVICES REMAINING OPPORTUNITIES AROSE.

HAD BEEN

HE ADDED THAT ALL HONG KONG ASA'S NEGOTIATED TO DATE DESIGNED WITH THE RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THE JOINT DECLARATION IN MIND AND WERE CAPABLE OF REMAINING IN FORCE AFTER 1997.

"THE CONCLUSION

OF THESE

FOUNDATION FOR A SMOOTH TRANSITION,

ASA'S || HE SAID.

WILL THEREFORE

LAY THE

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