GRS 200
CONFIDENTIAL
FM HONG KONG
TO DESKBY 14103OZ FCO
TELNO 144
OF 14091OZ JANUARY 36
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
CONFIDENTIAL
нии осноки
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
1 5 JAN 1986
DESK OFFICER
REGISTRY
INDEX
PA
Action Taken
89
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85
YOUR TELNO 85 : WHITE PAPER ON DRAFT NATIONALITY" ORDER.
1. IT IS NOT CLEAR FROM YOUR TELNO 85 EXACTLY WHAT IT IS YOU WISH
THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO SAY TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON 15 JANUARY.
AS YOU WILL SEE, LEGCO MEMBERS ARE DEMANDING A STATEMENT AND MISS
DUNN MADE CLEAR THIS MORNING THAT THE IDEA OF A LETTER TO HER FROM
THE CHIEF SECRETARY (WHICH WE HAD PREVIOUSLY CONTEMPLATED) WOULD NOT
RUN.
2. SUBJECT TO YOUR COMMENTS THEREFORE THE CHIEF SECRETARY WILL
SPEAK IN THE FOLLOWING TERMS:
''SIR, AT THE LAST MEETING OF THIS COUNCIL ON 8 JANUARY MISS
DUNN ASKED IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR ME TO GIVE A PEPORT ON THE
PROGRESS OF THE DELIBERATIONS BY HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT ON HER
MOTION ON THE DRAFT HONG KONG (BRITISH NATIONALITY) OPDER 1986.
SIR, THE PURPOSE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE ON 16 JANUARY IS TO
LISTEN TO VIEWS EXPRESSED IN PARLIAMENT ON THE DRAFT ORDER. UNTIL
THIS DEBATE HAS TAKEN PLACE AND MINISTERS HAVE TAKEN ALL THE VIEWS
EXPRESSED IN THAT DEBATE, AND MISS DUNN'S LETTER, INTO CONSIDERATION
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO MAKE ANY INTERMEDIATE STATEMENT AT
THIS STAGE. IT WILL, OF COURSE, BE OUR INTENTION TO INFROM THIS
COUNCIL AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME OF THE RESPONSE RECEIVED FROM HMG."
YOUDE
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
COPIES TO:
MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT MR FIFOOT,
LEGAL ADVISERS
HD/NTD
RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)
DEP HD/PUSD
PS
PS/MR RENTON
PS/PUS
SIR W HARDING MR WILSON
MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD
MR HYDE, HOME OFFICE
MR EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON
MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFIC
ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.
MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
CONIDENTIAL
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