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TO DESKBY 0409OOZ FCO
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OF 040705Z APRIL 86
INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
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Action Taken
FOREWING FOR HUM FROM GOVERNOP.
(US)
: NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL.
1. IT WOULD GREATLY HELP PRESENTATIONALLY HERE IF A STATEMENT COULD BE MADE BY HMG ON THE THREE ISSUES (ENDORSEMENT, EX-POWS AND MINORITIES) BEFORE LAYING OF THE ORDER IN PARLIAMENT.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO BE ABLE TO INFORM EXCO CONFIDENTIALLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE WHAT MINISTEPS DECISIONS ARE AND HOW THEY WILL BE ANNOUNCED. THEREAFTER, IT WOULD BE MOST HELPFUL IF WE COULD PUT A COHERENT STATEMENT ON THE DECISIONS TO THE UMELCO AD-HOC GROUP IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE PUBLIC STATEMENT IS MADE.
2. FOR THIS TO BE DONE, THE BEST ARRANGEMENT FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW WOULD BE FOR THE STATEMENT TO BE MADE DURING THE AFTERNOON IN THE UK. WE WOULD PASS THE STATEMENT TO THE AD HOC GROUP ON THE SAME AFTERNOON HONG KONG TIME (1.E. IN THE MORNING UK TIME), STRESSING THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT (NOT) MAKING IT PUBLIC UNTIL AFTER IT HAD BEEN RELEASED IN LONDON.
YOUDE
HONG KONG AGREEMENT: NATIONALITY
LIMITED
HD/HKD
HD/FED
HD/NTD
RESEARCH D (MR WALKER)
DEP HD/PUSD
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PS/MR RENTON
PS/PUS
SIR W HARD ING
MR WILSON
MR BARRINGTON
COPIES TO:
MR ROBERTS, NEWS DEPT
MR FIFOOT, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR GRAINGER, LEGAL ADVISERS
MR D MCDOUGALL, MVD
LIR HYDE, HOME OFFICE
MF EMERY, B4 DIV, HOME OFFICE, CROYDON
MF NICHOLSON, PASSPORT DEPT, HOME OFFICE
ROOM 236, CLIVE HOUSE.
MR MCDONOUGH, B2 DIV, HOME OFFICE
MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
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