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SUNDAY, JULY 29. 1990

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NATIONALITY PACKAGE AIMS AT KEEPING PEOPLE IN HK

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IS TO PROVIDE SIR DAVID

THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE NATIONALITY PACKAGE SECURITY FOR PEOPLE TO STAY IN HONG KONG, THE GOVERNOR, WILSON, SAID LAST (SATURDAY) NIGHT AT THE AIRPORT BEFORE DEPARTING FOR FIVE WEEKS' LEAVE IN SCOTLAND.

HE SAID

HE

GOVERNMENT

UNDERSTAND THIS AS MR MAUDE HAD EXPLAINED TO THEM IN PEKING.

THAT DID HOPE

THE CHINESE

THAT THE STATEMENT NOTED

ISSUED

BY

THE

COULD

CHINESE WHAT THE THERE

SIR DAVID FOREIGN MINISTRY ON THE NATIONALITY PACKAGE WAS VERY MUCH CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN SAYING BEFORE AND HE DID NOT THINK WERE ANY PARTICULAR NEW POINTS IN IT.

WAS

IN

WANT

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THE KEY THING ABOUT A BRITISH PASSPORT UNDER THAT PACKAGE

AND SETTLE THAT IT WOULD GIVE THE PERSON THE TOTAL RIGHT TO GO BRITAIN AND THE HOPE WAS, WITH THAT SECURITY, PEOPLE WOULD STAY IN HONG KONG, SIR DAVID SAID.

"I HOPE IT WILL GIVE THEM THAT SENSE OF SECURITY,

HE SAID.

HAD THE PASSPORTS SIR DAVID SAID HE THOUGHT THE PEOPLE WHO

THAT IF WOULD ACTUALLY WANT TO STAY IN HONG KONG BECAUSE THEY KNEW NECESSARY THEY COULD GO AND SETTLE ELSEWHERE.

"THEY WILL ALSO REALISE THAT HONG KONG IS A PLACE WHICH IS VERY OWN WORTH STAYING IN IT, A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A SUCCESS OF YOUR LIFE. THIS PLACE IS WHERE, AFTER ALL, MOST HONG KONG PEOPLE STAY IF THEY POSSIBLY CAN.'

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IT WAS WHETHER

WANT то

CHINESE SAID

POSSIBLE FOR THE ON THE QUESTION GOVERNMENT TO STOP PEOPLE USING THE BRITISH PASSPORTS, SIR DAVID THE JOINT DECLARATION DID MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THERE WOULD BE FREEDOM TO MOVE IN AND OUT OF HONG KONG.

IT ALSO SAID QUITE CLEARLY THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE ABLE PASSPORTS ISSUED BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS, HE ADDED.

TO USE

NEW MINISTER OF HE SAID THAT HE WOULD BE GOING TO MEET THE

RESPONSIBILITY FOR STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS WITH HONG KONG, LORD CAITHNESS IN OXFORDSHIRE AT THE END OF HIS LEAVE.

SIR DAVID SAID HE WOULD BRIEF HIM ON THE SITUATION IN HONG KONG AND TO ASK HIM TO VISIT HONG KONG AS SOON AS HE COULD SO THAT HE COULD GET UP-TO-DATE PERSONALLY ON WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HONG KONG.

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