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OUR TELNO 313: HONG KONG INDIANS

SUMMARY

HKM ocoty

RECEIVEN

REGISTRY

1 4 MAR 1986

PFICER

PA

REGISTRY Action Taken

1. THE PRESS HAS GOT HOLD OF AND LAN REPRESENTATIONS TO SIR W

HARDING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG INDIANS.

DETAIL

2. **NEWSTIME'' (PUBLISHED IN HYDERABAD) CARRIED A REPORT ON

9 MARCH UNDER THE CAPTION 'NO DECISION ON HONG KONG INDIANS''

NT CLAIMS THAT THE GON TOOK UP THE ISSUE DURING TALKS WITH HARDING, AND QUOTES AN UNNAMED SOURCE IN THE MEA AS SAYING: WE

EXPRESSED OUR CONCERN DURING INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS''

3. THE REPORT CONTINUES THAT HARDING TOLD THE MEA THAT HMG WAS CONSIDERING VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES TO ENSURE THAT THOSE RESIDENTS

OF HONG KONG WHO WERE NON-ETHNIC CHINESE DID NOT FEEL

AFTER 1997: AND THAT NO FINAL DECISION HAD BEEN TAKEN.

4. COPY OF ARTICLE FOLLOWS BY BAG TO HKD.

WADE-GERY

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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY

LIMITED

HD/HKD

HD/FED

HD/NTD

RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)

DEP HD/PUSD

PS

PS/MR RENTON

PS/PUS

SIR W HARDING MR WILSON

COPIES TO:

THIS TELEGRAM WAS NOT ADVANCED

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

MR NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE.

ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.

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

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