TNAG-1568-FCO40-2134-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-and-passports-Hong-Kong-(Br-1986 — Page 122

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CONFIDENTIAL

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

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Telephone 0233 8768

Your reference

Our reference

HKK 340/1

Date 1 September 1986

RE.

-4 SEP 1986

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INTERNATIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF BN (O) PASSPORTS

1. I enclose a draft submission for our Ministers outlining our strategy for securing international acceptance of BN (0) passports. I should be grateful for any comments you and the recipients of this letter

We would like to may have.

submission up the put

SO during the second week of September, and

I should appreciate comments (by phone if you like) by mid-day on Friday 5 September, or at the latest by the end of Monday 8 September (when comments should be addressed to Mike Hill as I will be on leave).

I

2. The texts of the various enclosures to the submission are, think, familiar to

In submitting to everyone from recent telegrams. them we intend to make minor alterations to improve the sense at a few points. These are:

(a) Letter to heads of missions (FCO telegram 1725).49

Paragraph 4. Reverse the order of the sixth and seventh sentences. (It was in fact Jerry Emery We will also describe who suggested this to me.)

at this point the number of people who may lose right of abode as "minimal" rather than "small".

(b) Annex

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1726). to the letter (FCO telegram Paragraph 1. In the penultimate sentence we will

the bracketed

"(see paragraph phrase below)" to follow immediately "the right of abode in Hong kong".

move

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(c) Annex,

paragraph

The

8.

middle, bracketed,

sentence seems ambiguous. We will change it to:

"(Passports issued by the Governor would be inappropriate for continued use after 30 June 1997)."

3. I should be grateful for confirmation that no

these changes.

CONFIDENTIAL

one objects to