TNAG-1097-FCO40-1347-Chinese-visa-office-in-Hong-Kong-1982 — Page 15

RJT McLaren Esq HONG KONG

CONFIDENTAL

British Embassy PEKING

31 December 1981

الله

(102)

Dear Robin

CHINESE VISA OFFICE IN HONG KONG

HKK 349||

7/1 AF7/1 기

1. Many thanks for having copied to us your record of 15 December of your meeting with Mr Zhao Zhenkui.

2.

I have been wondering whether it might be useful, when the Chinese next raise the matter of passport issuing with us, to try to head them off with the suggestion that, in the case of Chinese citizens who lose their passports in Hong Kong, the Visa Office should issue them with letters saying in essence that, to the best of the Office's knowledge, the holder of the letter is a Chinese citizen who has lost his passport, etc, and that a replacement passport would be issued to the holder as soon as possible.

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3. With your agreement, we might suggest that such a letter would help to get over any difficulty arising in Hong Kong from the lack of a passport or other identity document. Would it be right to assume that the holder of such a letter could leave Hong Kong for the People's Republic (although not, of course, enter Hong Kong) without a passport?

HAK 349/1

1982

cc

R D Clift Esq HK+GDFCO

Yours ever

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M W Atkinson

chael

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