TNAG-0212-FCO40-248-Departmental-briefs-on-Hong-Kong-1970 — Page 73

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It is perhaps also relevant that, according to a brief prepared by Migration and Visa Department dated 17 November against the call next week of Gibraltarian leaders on the Secretary of State, that a Working Party has been set up between the F.C.O. and the Home Office to carry out an examina- tion of the Nationality Law, and that one possibility put forward for consideration is that the Law should be changed to incorporate into a new form of U.K. citizenship a number of dependent territories with populations so small that exemption from U.K. immigration control would present no problem. might meet Mr. Mancham's political objectives in the Seychelles, provided that the U.K. would be prepared to admit Seychellois freely to this country.

This

I am sending copies of this to the Heads of the geographical in the latter case departments in D.T.A.D. (including Hong Kong)

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for information, since it can be accepted that any change in the present constitutional relationship, Hong Kong and the U.K.,

would have undesirable repercussions vis-à-vis China.

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I am also reading a copy toti Cradock

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(L. Monson)

20 November,1970.