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Dr Wilson
HONG KONG:
NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL
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1.
It has now been arranged that the Hong Kong
Nationality Order in Council will be debated in the House
of Commons on Monday 12 May and in the House of Lords on
Friday 16 May.
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2.
I now submit the draft of the Home Secretary's
opening speech in the House of Commons debate.
prepared in the Home Office and incorporates our comments.
3.
It was
The Home Office were ready to give a full and
sympathetic explanation of the Government's decision on the
three LegCo requests and we have further accentuated this
aspect of the speech. We have also contributed an up-beat passage on general political developments (para 19) intended
to support the point that the ethnic minorities have a secure future in Hong Kong. Inevitably there is a passage the immigration implications of giving British citizenship to the ethnic minorities (para 14). Home
Office officials insist that this is a minimalist statement
of
is phrased as uncontentiously as possible. I think that we must probably accept this; but this
this is very much a matter of political judgement and it would be
on
their
guidance.
Ministers'
views, and
helpful
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have
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