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FROM: A C Galsworthy

DATE: 8 May 1985

Mr Fairweather, ECD (I)

Cc: Dr Wilson

Mr Barrington

Mr Partridge, NTD

Mr Cambridge, MVD

Mr Sanderson, WIAD

Mr Adam Fergusson

Mr Eaton, Legal Advisers

Mrs Denza, Legal Advisers Mr Grainger, Legal Advisers

CFP STYLE PASSPORT : BRITISH NATIONALS WITHOUT EC RIGHTS

1.

2.

(43

Please refer to your minute of 30 April to Mr Partridge.

reasons

in

para

strongly endorse

i.e. that:

the

For the

I given

3 below,

conclusions in your draft submission and attachment,

(a)

the

issue

of "second could we

not countenance passports to British Nationals without EC rights;

class"

(b) such

persons

should be issued with

the European Look-Alike

CFP.

3.

is

an

case. There

Hong Kong, as you say, is a particularly sensitive

undercurrent of suspicion there that, following the signature

of the Sino-British

distance themselves

from

agreement on

Hong Kong.

Hong

Kong's

future, HMG will

We

need to

counter

such

Το

•

suspicions and to avoid taking any action which might fuel

issue any type of "second class" passport,

(who will be eligible to use

BDTC

passports

either to Hong Kong BDTCs

until 30

to before 1 July 1997,

Nationality British new

to

such BDTC's

who choose,

reflecting

the

June 1997) or

obtain

(Overseas)

passports

status would

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