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equally from visa abolition arrangements.
3. The ideal solution to this problem would be to
offer the Mexicans a revised agreement set out in terms
of the British Nationality Act 1981, to replace the
1959 agreement. Unfortunately for technical reasons
there is no immediate prospect of this. Our passport
policy is in a state of flux, owing to constitutional
langely 225 not exclusively tasty he cause of developments in Hong Kong and to a mass of complex
You will also have seen from panas 4,5+agour Telmo 1031 That in due we expect for I |course (probably,
July 1987) a very tam n
taritha
nadamant stains) is to Theated for those who are
BDTC's by virtue of a
problems connected with the introduction of the common connection with thone kang.
format passport (cfp) by the United Kingdom and look
The mpshot is That me
alike cfp by the Dependent Territories, and we cannot fire, you
definitive, the tyres i a)]
yet produce a list of passports whose holders we would
Nevertheless
wish to be exempt from a visa requirement.) We are,
however, under considerable pressure from Bermuda and
do what me.com now to
easier access
Hong Kong to obtain visa free entry) for their BDTC to Mexico
to
auperher
and certain other countries who have acted adgited a
anithole to The Mexicans.
similarly to the Mexicans) and cannot wait until the cfp
related problems are solved.
thongkong
4. In the case of Mexico an interim solution would
seem to be to extend the 1959 Agreement to include all
BDTC in the manner of the 1963 extension to British
Honduras. To judge from para 5 of your telegram No 7
to Hamilton this would probably be acceptable to the
far as
are concerned. Mexicans at least as regards Bermudans) You will need
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