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HONG KONG AGREEMENT

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PS/MR LUCE

PS/PUS

DR WILSON

HD/ HKD

HD/ FED

RESIDENT CLERK

SIR P CRADOCK

MR BURROWS, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT

UNCLASSIFIED

FROM PEKING 0908152 NOV 84

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 2732 OF 9/11/84

INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

MY TELNO 2725: HONG KONG AGREEMENT: WU XUEQIAN'S REPORT TO THE

NPC STANDING COMMITTEE

1. THERE WAS AN ERROR IN TRANSMISSION IN SECTION 2, SUB-SECTION (IN) OF OUR TRANSLATION OF WU'S REPORT. THE SUB-SECTION SHOULD

HAVE BEGUN:

**(-bril) AMONG THE CHINESE INHABITANTS OF HONG KONG THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HOLD THE BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORY

CITIZENS PASSPORT''//BUT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THEM STILL

CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE CHINESE, AND THE MOTHERLAND HAS CONSISTENTLY TREATED THOSE HONG KONG COMPATRIOTS WHO HOLD **BRITISH DEPENDENT TERRITORY CITIZENS PASSPORTS' AS CHINESE CITIZENS THEY HAVE HELD BRITISH PASSPORTS PRINCIPALLY

//THEY

2. ERROR REGRETTED.

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