TNAG-1407-FCO40-1882-Future-of-Hong-Kong-passports-and-visas-1985 — Page 22

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GRS 200

CONFIDENTIAL

FM HONG KONG

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 2596

OF 21034OZ NOVEMBER 85

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING

(330)

MHK 040/28

RECEIVED IK CISTRZ

2 1 NOV 1985

DESK OFFICER.

REGISTRY

INDEX

PA

Action Taken

PEKING TELNO 1695 T HONG KONG AGREEMENT: ACCEPTABILITY OF BN (0) PASSPORTS

WE REGRET WE HAD NOT MADE IT CLEAR IN PARA. 2 OF OUR TELNO 2569 THAT WHAT WE SAID TO THE FRG CONSUL-GENERAL WAS THAT (NEXT TWO WORDS UNDERLINED) OUR UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT THE PROBLEM HAD BEEN RESOLVED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE JOINT DECLARATION.

2. THIS SUBJECT OF WHETHER SAR RESIDENTS CAN HOLD BOTH BN (0) AND SAR PASSPORTS CONTINUES TO BE A CAUSE FOR PUBLIC UNEASE HERE. REITERATION OF OUR UNDERSTANDING (SIC) THAT THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEM WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE ADEQUATE IN THE DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL EARLY NEXT MONTH. BECAUSE OF THE WIDESPREAD UNDERSTANDING HERE THAT CHINA DOES NOT PERMIT DUAL NATIONALITY, THE SOONER WE CAN GET FORMAL CHINESE CONFIRMATION THAT NO PROBLEM EXISTS THE BETTER.

YOUDE

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

SIR W HARD ING MR WILSON

CU

COPIES TO:

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

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MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFI ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.

MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS