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12 MAY 1986
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Action Taken
DATE: 9 May 1986
PS/Lady Young
cc: Private Secretary
PS/Mr Renton
Dr Wilson
716)
HONG KONG NATIONALITY ORDER: LORDS OPENING SPEECH
of
A 1. Lady Young will wish to see the attached Home Office
draft of Lord Glenarthur's opening speech in the House Lords debate on the Hong Kong nationality Order on 16 May.
B
2.
The covering submission states that the draft speech has been agreed with Foreign Office officials. This was a mistake, for which the Home Office have now apologised: they jumped the gun. We had not in fact made our comments when the draft speech was submitted. We have now proposed to the
Home Office the amendments marked on the draft in
manuscript. We also told the Home Office (yesterday) that paragraph 16 of the draft would not be acceptable to us, and
would need to be reconsidered in the light of discussion in Cabinet and subsequent exchanges between Private Offices. I have now spoken to the Home Office again to emphasise that
FCO views on the point at issue are as stated in
Mr Galsworthy's letter of today's date to Secretary's Private Secretary.
3.
the Home
case is
Those points apart, I think the Government's put in terms which adequately take into account Hong Kong
sensitivities.
Cotum
9 May 1986
CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
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