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Those with similar connections with a Dependent

Territory would become "Citizens of the British

Dependent Territories";

Those who did not fall into either of these two

categories would become "British Overseas

Citizens".

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The British Government was impressed with the

argument made strongly by the Hong Kong Government and by oly

other dependencies that positive recognition of the status of the

remaining dependencies should be given in citizenship terms.

The spokesman stressed that the White Paper emphasized

the establishment of a separate citizenship for the British

Dependent Territories would in no way alter the relationship ogs

between those territories and the United Kingdom, nor the British

Government's obligations and commitments to the Dependent

Territories and to their citizens".""

The White Paper proposes identical provisions for p

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the acquisition of citizenship for British Citizenship and Citizenship

of the Dependent Territories. In other words, all the principles

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of nationality that are applied in the United Kingdom will be applied.

appropriate, to the Dependent Territories.

The spokesman said that Citizens of the United Kingdom!

and Colonies from Hong Kong who had settled in the United

Kingdom and who had acquired the right of abode there would

become British Citizens under the proposed new legislation.

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