TNAG-1334-FCO40-1766-Future-of-Hong-Kong-legislation-1984 — Page 152

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BDTC status and not also his new status. His object in renouncing would always be to divest himself of British nationality and there

would be no point in abandoning one form of it while retaining the

other. So far as this Office is concerned, therefore, we have no

interest in including a provision on the lines mentioned in your

paragraph 13 and we think it need only be pursued if you feel the

Chinese would find its omission offensive.

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J Pakenham-Walsh

Legal Advisers Branch

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