LEGCO UNOFFICIMAL AND CPPCC MEMBER HO SA-CHU SAID IF BRITAIN DID NOT RESOLVE THE NATIONALITY PROBLEM FACING THE NON-CHINESE MINORITMES, CHINA WOULD.
ANOTHER CPPCC MEMBER, XU SIMIN, TOLD THE SCM POST THAT CHINA WOULD ACCEPT HK'S ETHNIC MINORITIES AS CHINESE NATIONALS. MEETING POINT CHAIRMAN LAU NAKEUNG AGREED WITH HIM, BUT ADDED THAT BRITAIN SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NON-CHINESE MINORITIES.
LEGCO UNOFFICIAL MARTIN LEE SAND THE OUTCOME OF THE DEBATE, THOUGH DISAPPOINTING, WAS NOT UNEXPECTED. HE SAND TO GRANT THE ETHNIC MINORINTHES THE RIGHT OF ABODEN BRITAIN WOULD SET THEIR HEARTS AT EASE SO THAT THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO STAY IN HK, FAILURE TO DO SO WOULD ONLY MAKE THEM JITTERY AND FORCE THEM TO FIND A SAFETY EXINT
ELSEWHERE.
MR LEE ADDED THAT BRITAIN COULD HARDLY PERSUADE OTHER COUNTRIES TO RECOGNISE THE BN (0) PASSPORT IF IT ITSELF REFUSED TO INCLUDE N THE PASSPORT AN ENDORSEMENT SAYING THAT BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS HAD A
RIGHT TO FREELY VINS NT THE UK.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE MANDHAN COMMUNITY HERE, MR LACHMAN NARAIN, SAND HE WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT NOTHING POSITIVE HAD COME OUT OF THE COMMONS DEBATE. BUT HIS COLLEAGUE WHO JOINED HIM THE THE LOBBYING EFFORT IN LONDON, MR K. STAL, WAS OPTIMISTIC THAT AMENDMENTS WOULD BE MADE WHEN THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE NATIONALITY
ORDER WAS PRESENTED.
UMELCO MEMBER MARHA TAM TOLD COMMERCIAL RADIO (ENGLISH) THAT T MIGHT BE THE TIME TO SEND A DELEGATION TO LONDON TO LOBBY MPS ON THE
NATIONALITY ISSUE.
REPRESENTATIVE OF LOCAL EX-POWS JACK EDWARDS WAS DISAPPOINTED WITH THE DBATE. HE SAID THAT THEY WERE PLANNING TO SOLICIT THE SUPPORT OF EX-SERVICEMEN ORGANISATIONS IN BRITAINT TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT OF
ABODEN BRITAIN.
VICE-PRESIDENT OF HK AFFAIRS SOCIETY MAN SA-CHEONG SAID CHINA NOW HAD TO WORK HARD TO CONVICE THE ETHNIC MINORITIES THAT THE TERRITORY WOULD REMAIN A VIHABLE INTERNATIONAL CITY WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE TO
STAY AFTER 1997.
RTHK'S ''NEWS PLUS'' ON ATV-ENGLISH ON FRIDAY SAND CONSERVATIVE MP ROBERT ADLEY HAD, IN THE COMMONS DEBATE, LAUNCHED A PERSONAL ATTACK ON LOCAL JOURNALIST EMILY LAU AND EDITOR OF THE FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW DEREK DAVINES. NOTHING THAT MR ADLEY HAD SAND THAT MISS LAU HAD MISUSED HER POSINTHMON AS A JOURNAL HST TO PUT FORWARD HER OWN POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW, MR DAVINES TOLD THE PROGRAMME THAT EVERYTHING MR ADLEY HAD SAND IN THE HOUSE WAS WRONG. ON MR ADLEY'S CRITICISM THAT FEER REFUSED TO PUBLISH HIS LETTER IN RESPONSE TO MISS LAU'S COMMENTS ON HK'S FUTURE, MR DAVIES SAND IT WAS FEER'S EDITORIAL
POLICY NOT TO PUBLISH ''VULGAR ABUSES''.
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