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Kong but that is a rather different thing from recognition of the
passport. There is no earthly reason why the passport should not be recognised just as the present BDTC passport is recognised throughout the world.
MS ? (RTHK) Have you started on the negotiations
for the visa abolition ?
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MINISTER: I could not tell you whether it has started
this week or is going to start in the next few weeks but I can
assure you that I was given to understand before I left London,
again this isn't my responsibility, that the Foreign Office were
about to engage or engaged on this task.
MS ? Do we understand that you have discussed this
matter with the LEGCO members this afternoon ? What assurances
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MINISTER: I am sorry, you will have to repeat that.
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You had lunch with the LEGCO members this
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the BNO passport ?
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What assurances have you given them concerning
I wasn't asked to go further than I have gone
anybody can go further than that. I can give
that the BNO passport system will be in place on the 1st July 1987; I can give you the assurance that the British Government is going to bend all its efforts to make sure that all other governments know of the significance of that passport and I can give you the assurance that the passport will contain the very
endorsement which Hong Kong asked for and I am very glad that after
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