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DFB Le Breton Esq
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CONFIDENTIAL
BRITISH EMBASSY
THE HAGUE
21 OCTOBER 1986
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Dear Le Breton,
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HONG KONG: BRITISH NATIONALS (OVERSEAS): THIRD COUNTRIES.
FACILITATING TRAVEL TO
1. I am writing to report that I have called on various people in the Dutch MFA to deliver a Note on the BN (0) s as instructed in your letter of 23 September and to make the additional points contained in the speaking note attached to your other letter of 23 September.
2. The reactions were as follows:
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Kervers (Head of Passport Section) took note and promised a reply in due course. But he raised the separate issue of Hong Kong Certificate of Identity holders, which has as you know already been the subject of discussion in London and Hong Kong. I am pursuing this aspect with our Consul General in Amsterdam and will write to you about it in due
course.
Gosschalk (responsible in the MFA for the Schengen Agreement discussions) suggested that it would be more helpful to discuss the matter after he had received the statement on the 1960 Visa Abolition Agreement which the UK had promised to send him and his Benelux colleagues by September. He confirmed that although the question of a possible visa regime for people from Hong Kong was on the agenda" in the Schengen context, there had so far been no discussion of the subject and he could not predict the outcome.
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