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did not consider it right to accede to the request for British citizenship for ethnic minority BDTCS. Ministers took the view that
the provisions of the Joint Declaration and the proposed Order in
Council met fully the concern of this community to have both
recognised nationality status
status and a secure right of abode in Hong Kong, where they want to continue to live. However, Ministers, in
recognising the concern felt among this community
in Hong Kong,
stated in Parliament that they would consider it an obligation upon any future government to treat with very considerable and particular
sympathy the case for admission to the United
of Kingdom
individual British national who, against all expectations, came
under pressure to leave Hong Kong.
16.
any
Once the Order had been made Her Majesty's Government
initiated in September 1986 an extensive diplomatic exercise to explain to other countries the new status and the passport that goes with it. Parliament will be informed of the results of the exercise
in due course.
The response SO far has been favourable, and the Government are confident that the new status will receive widespread
international acceptance.
17.
On 11 April 1986, Memoranda were exchanged between the
British Embassy in Peking and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs recording the agreement reached on the terms of a a right of abode endorsement to be entered in the passports of British Nationals (Overseas). This endorsement will guarantee the holder's
right to return to Hong Kong and thus make the British (Overseas) Passport more readily acceptable for international travel
before and after 1997.
National
(e)
Drafting of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region
18.
C
Under paragraph 3 (12) of
of the Joint Declaration the policie
of the People's Republic of China regarding Hong Kong, which are se out in paragraph 3 of the Joins Declaration, and the elaboration o them in Annex I to the Joint Declaration are to be stipulated in
Basic Law of the
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the
People's Republic of
China by the Chinese National People's
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