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3. BOTH HUL YIN-FAT AND DESMOND LEE DREW ATTENTION TO THE NEED TO PRESERVE THE CONTINUED EASE OF TRAVEL OF HOLDEPS OF CERTIFICATES

CF IDENTITY.

COMMENT.

9. AS EXPECTED, THE MAIN THEMES OF UNOFFICIALS'S SPEECHES WERE PRACTICAL ISSUES SUCH AS THE NEED TO MAKE THE BN (0) PASSPORT AN EFFECTIVE TRAVEL DOCUMENT, THE NEED TO ENSURE INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTABILITY OF BN(0) PASSPORT, WHETHER IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR SAR RESIDENTS TO HOLD CONCURRENTLY A BN (0) AND A SAR PASSPORT, AND THE CONTINUED EASE OF TRAVEL OF HOLDERS OF CERTIFICATES OF IDENTITY, RATHER THAN MORE ABSTRACT ISSUES RELATING TO NATIONALITY OR TO THE DETAILED PROVISIONS OF THE DRAFT ORDER. THE ONLY ISSUE RELATING TO NATIONALITY WHICH WAS RAISED WAS THE NATIONALITY ARRANGEMENTS FOR NON-CHINESE BDTCS. THEIR REQUEST FOR PIGHT OF ABODE IN THE UK RECEIVED HERELY TOKEN SUPPORT FROM JOHN SWATHE BUT WAS VEHEMENTLY TAKEN UP BY MARTIN LEE, ALLEN LEE AND CLYDESDALE. FEW CONCRETE GROUNDS WERE ADVANCED THOUGH IN SUPPORT OF THEIR PEQUEST FOR PIGHT OF ABODE IN THE UK.

YOUDE

HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY

LIMITED

HD/HKD

COPIES TO:

HD/FED

HD/NTD

RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)

DEP HD/PUSD

PS

PS/MR RENTON

PS/PUS

SIR W HARDING

MR WILSON

MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT

MR FIFOOT,

LEGAL ADVISERS

MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS

MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD

MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE

MR EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON

MF NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE,

ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.

MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE

MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS

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