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CONFIDENTIAL
FM MADRID
TO ROUTINE FCO
passport visajde
CONFIDENTIAL (104028
REC:
20 NOV 1285
EGISTRY Action Taken
TELNO 777
UF 1315592 NOV 35
INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG
YOUR TELNO 315: ENTRY INTO SPAIN FOR HONG KONG PASSPORT HOLDERS
HM CUNSUL GENERAL CALLED ON SUB-DIRECTOR FOR CONSULAR AFFAIRS AT MFA TODAY AND HANDED OVER COPIES OF ORIGINAL NOTE 277 OF 26 JULY 1982
PLUS REMINDERS IN 1983 AND 1984.
2. LLEWELYN WENT OVER THE GROUND AGAIN WITH RAMIREZ-MONTESINOS, WHO HAD NUT PREVIOUSLY HANDLED THE CASE. HIS ONLY REACTION WAS TO HINT AT SPANISH FEARS OF A CHINESE EXODUS TO SPAIN NEARER THE DATE FOR THE HAND OVER OF SOVEREIGHTY. LLEWELYN SAID THAT THIS WAS NOT THE ISSUE HERE. THE SPANISH NOTE NO 83 OF 11 MARCH 1981, STATES THAT, BECAUSE THE 1960 AGREEMENT WAS BASED ON RECIPROCITY, THE UK ACCEPTING THE ABOLITION OF A VISA REQUIREMENT FOR SPANISH SUBJECTS FROM THEIR ARFICAN PROVINCES, THAT RECIPROCITY WAS LOST WHEN THE TERM AFRICAN PROVINCES WAS NO LONGER APPLICABLE. BUT, LLEWELYN SAID, THE PRINCIPLE OF RECIPROCITY STILL REMAINED: SPANISH PASSPORT HOLDERS WERE NOT REQUIRED TO OBTAIN VISAS TO ENTER HONG KONG, WHY THEN SHOULD HONG KONG PASSPORT HOLDERS BE REQUIRED TO USTAIN VISAS TO ENTER SPAIN ?
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3. RAMIREZ-MONTESINOS PROMISED TO GIVE URGENT CONSIDERATION TO THE MATTER, IN CONSULTATION WITH HIS DIRECTOR AND THE CHIEF IMMIGRATION OFFICER AND TO LET US HAVE A WRITTEN ANSWER SOON.
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