TNAG-1569-FCO40-2135-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-and-passports-Hong-Kong-(Br-1986 — Page 62

RECEIVED:

REGISTRY 1.4 NOV 1986

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FM FCOLN TO HOKON

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TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG

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OF 23093OZ OCTOBER 86

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING

WOOD'S TELELETTER TO LEEKS OF 20 OCTOBER: RE-ENTRY PERMITS

1.

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR KEEPING US ABREAST OF YOUR

INTENTION TO SPEAK TO NCNA.

2.

YOUR SPEAKING NOTE DOES NOT SEEM TO US TO BE ENTIRELY CLEAR IN GETTING ACROSS THE ESSENTIAL POINT, WHICH IS SURELY THAT IN THE SECOND SENTENCE OF PARA 1 OF TLUR. IT LAYS RATHER GREATER EMPHASIS ON THE INTRODUCTION AND BENEFITS OF COMPUTERISATION, A SECONDARY POINT. WE WONDER WHETHER NCNA, LIKE US, MIGHT NOT FIND IT A LITTLE CONFUSING. (UNFORTUNATELY, THE FIRST SENTENCE OF

PARA 3 OF THE SPEAKING NOTE WAS RECEIVED WITH A SLIGHT GARBLE, WHICH COULD CONTRIBUTE TO ITS LACK OF CLARITY.)

3.

WE SUGGEST THAT YOU MIGHT INCLUDE THE KEY SENTENCE

IDENTIFIED ABOVE IN THE SPEAKING NOTE, PERHAPS AT THE END OF PARA. THIS WOULD MAKE QUITE CLEAR THE CHANGE IN PROCEDURE TO

WHICH YOU WISH TO DRAW ATTENTION.

ELSEWHERE, WE FOUND THE REFERENCE TO GREEN AND BLACK SEAL HOLDERS RATHER MYSTERIOUS. IF, AS WE ASSUME, IT IS THE CASE THAT HOLDERS OF ONE PARTICULAR TYPE OF SEAL (GREEN?) ARE NOT ELIGIBLE

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