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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
in
the provisions of the Joint Declaration and the proposed Order
Council met fully the concern of this community to have both a
recognised nationality status and a secure right of abode in Hong
Kong, where they
they want to continue to live. However, Ministers, in
recognising the concern felt among this community in Hong Kong,
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 Kingdom of any
individual British national who, against all expectations, came
stated
in
under pressure to leave Hong Kong. Pa<elio)
16.
Once the Order had been made Her Majesty's Government
an extensive diplomatic exercise to
new status and the passport that goes
initiated in September 1986
explain to other countries the
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. (Pa (elio)
-)
17.
-)
British
On 11 April 1986, Memoranda were exchanged between the Embassy in Peking and the Chinese Ministry
of Foreign
a
right of
British
holder's
Affairs recording the agreement reached on the terms of
abode endorsement to be entered in the passports of
Nationals (Overseas). This endorsement wil1 indicate the
right to return to Hong Kong and thus make the British (Overseas) Passport more readily acceptable for international travel before and after 1997. Pa
<Pa <el 18)
National
iaz) stake
(e) Drafting of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Specialt
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Administrative Region
(013)
Under paragraph 3(12) of the Joint Declaration the policies
of the People's Republic of China regarding Hong Kong, which are set out in paragraph 3 of the Joint Declaration, and the elaboration of
them in Annex I to the Joint Declaration are to be
be stipulated in a Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Legion of the
People's Republic of
China by the Chinese National People's
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