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6.

YOUR AMENDMENT TO PARA 6 AGREED BUT WE WOULD LIKE ALSO TO

BRING IN REFERENCE TO CHILDREN UNDER 21, AS DOES SECTION XIV OF

ANNEX I TO JOINT DECLARATION. WE SUGGEST THEREFORE IN FIRST

SENTENCE AFTER 'PERMANENT RESIDENCE' ADD 'AND THEIR CHILDREN

UNDER 21 YEARS OF AGE BORN TO THEM IN HONG KONG BEFORE OR

AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HONG KONG SAR ...' AND REPLACE

THIRD SENTENCE BY 'THE HONG KONG SAR WILL BE THEIR HOME AND THEY

WILL HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE THERE. MOST OF THEM WILL HAVE NO

RIGHT OF ABODE ELSEWHERE.'.

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8.

YOUR AMENDMENT TO PARA 7 AGREED.

GRATEFUL FOR YOUR EARLY COMMENTS ON ABOVE.

HOWE

HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY

LIMITED

HD/HKD

HD/FED

HD/NTD

RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)

DEP HD/PUSD

PS

PS/MR RENTON

PS/LADY YOUNG

PS/PUS

COPIES TO:

MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT

MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR MILLER, MVD

MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE

MR EMERY, BL DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON

MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE

ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.

SIR W HARDING

MR WILSON

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