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Date 16 December 1985
Dear Jens,
DEBATE ON HONG KONG NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL
1.
Thank you for copying the first draft of your briefing for the House of Commons debate on the Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council to us. I attach annexes suggesting amendments
to:
a) your draft speech
b)
your background note
and c)
your notes on amendments
I hope our amendments are self-explanatory.
2.
answer
Our amendments to the speech assume that you will wish to any of the points made in the Hong Kong Legislative Council debate which
raised in are
the House at the end of the debate, rather than making
We a preemptive strike in the opening speech. must expect that most of
these points will be raised ù the debate and we recommend that
on prepare defensive notes
each of the you points outlined in Hong Kong telno 2789 for the concluding speech.
3. We will need to inform Hong Kong of the general lines of the opening speech and the defensive notes before the debate. We may also wish to submit some of the material to our Ministers. I will provide supplementaries on non-nationality Hong Kong issues which may
raised in the debate in due course. A member of HKD will course be available for the
of
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debate.
Yours
J N Powell
Hong Kong Department
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