Mr Donald
BU noted for Mr
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HONG KONG TRANSIT VISAS
For
27/5
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PA 226.50
Mr Will
HK12 345/4
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51 ? 7 MAY 1981
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Problem
1. Whether to instruct HMA Peking to put to the Chinese the
See (31
Hong Kong Government's comments and proposals on the Chinese Foreign
Minister's complaints about the treatment of Chinese passport holders
transitting Hong Kong.
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that we send instructions to Peking as in the attached
draft telegram. FED concur.
Background
3. During the Secretary of State's visit to China, Huang Hua made
three specific complaints about Chinese citizens transitting Hong Kong:
(i) they were maltreated;
(ii)
they were only allowed to stay in Hong Kong for 48 hours;
(iii) they could not obtain visas in Peking but had to do so at Lo Wu.
These are set out in Peking Telegram Number 25 to Hong Kong. Hong Kong
suggested a line which the Secretary of State might take with Huang
Hua and gave the background to their complaints in Hong Kong Telegram
Number 109 to Peking. However, there is no record of the subject
having come up when Lord Carrington saw Huang Hua again, but Ke Hua
raised it subsequently with Sir P Cradock (Peking Telegram Number 274).
Argument
4.
The Hong Kong Government have suggested in their Telegram Number 468
how we might respond to the Chinese. Both we and Peking were content
with their suggested response on points (i) and (ii), i.e. that we
could not understand the complaint about alleged maltreatment but would
/examine
No comments yet.
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