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HONG KONG: NATIONALITY ORDER IN COUNCIL

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.

2.

It was

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.

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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 а secure future in Hong Kong. Inevitably there is a passage on the immigration implications of. giving British citizenship to the ethnic minorities (para 14). Home

Office officials insist that this is a minimalist statement

of their Ministers' views, and is phrased as

uncontentiously as possible. I think that we must probably accept this; but this is very much a

judgement and it would be helpful

guidance.

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