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LETTER

ADDRESSEE'S REFERENCE

TO

K Sital Esq JP

Vice President

Council of Hong Kong Indian

Associations

c/o TST

PO Box 95106

HONG KONG

(FULL POSTAL ADDRESS)

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Action Takan

ENCLOSURES

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COPIES TO BE SENT TO

Mr. Hill

Pl consider carefully.

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(FULL ADDRESSES, IF NECESSARY)

LETTER DRAFTED FOR SIGNATURE BY

Home Secretary

(NAME OF SIGNATURY)

Thank you for your letters of 17 February and 3 and 25 March about the Hong Kong Nationality Order in Council. It was very helpful for us to have these expressions of the Council's views.

The Government has very carefully considered all the points made in your letters. We recognised the concern they represented and we examined each of the aspects with great care to see whether it

But, would be right to move in the direction the Council suggested. as you will have seen from my statement in Parliament on 23 Apr. we had finally to conclude that it would not be right to do so. I know this will come as a great disappointment to the Council,

I wanted therefore to write to you myself to explain why we have

reached this conclusion.

and

As you know, the draft Order provides for a continued form of British nationality for those British Dependent Territories citizens who

would otherwise be stateless in 1997, and for their children and grandchildren. We believe that the most appropriate form of British nationality¶ts British Overseas citizenship, which properly reflects

Position

the nature of the-sosnsettent Hong Kong British Dependent Territorie

British citizens, both with the United Kingdom and with Hong Kong. citizenship,--Britist: Dependent Territonien-citizenship, cannot

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