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SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH MR DAVID HOWELL AT CHEVENING, 6-7
MAY
FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE'S VISIT TO HONG KONG AND PEKING
POINTS TO MAKE
General impressions
Your visit attracted very wide publicity in UK as well as in Hong Kong.
Your impressions? Understand you were struck by speed with which territory is changing, both physically and in terms of attitudes of its inhabitants. Does this apply to attitudes to development of representative government?
Follow-up action
Hope you will let us know if there is any help you would like in following up points arising from your visit. We stand ready to help with further briefing, written memoranda or answers to specific questions.
Nationality
Am sure Committee was struck by the strength of feeling in Hong Kong on nationality issue eg Dame Lydia Dunn's evidence.
Hardly surprising that people in Hong Kong should advocate passports for all 3.28 million BDTCs. But UK opinion is a different
matter.
Still believe passports for all is unrealistic. Am sure there would be little political support for such a move in Parliament, as Mr Jopling made clear in Hong Kong. Do other members of the Committee share this view?
As I told Committee on 22 March, difficult to identify any
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