24 MAY
89 19:46
FROM COI TECH RADIO
TRANSCRIPT H: SELECT COMMITTEE RR HONG KONG
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24 MAY 1989
MR. IVAN LAWRENCE:
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So it is not then a question of principle
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it is
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just a question of numbers of those who might be likely to
come and live here?
You are saying that as far as the European Community is concerned, the numbers likely to
common citizenship are
very small and you are implying that there might come a that the numbers who would time it is a possibility want to come and settle in the United Kingdom from Hong Kong could be that is not to anticipate that they will be and hopefully everything will go well in Hong Kong so
but could be very great, so that it would not happen
come to live here and to share a
it
is a question of the practicality rather than a question of principle, which is how you appeared first to be
putting it.
KR. TIN RENTON:
No.
you on that.
I think, with respect, I would disagree with
I think we are in fact talking about two
totally different sets of principles.
The sets of principles that have guided us in relation to immigration control ever since the 1960s were directed, as I said in my opening remarks, essentially at the changing nature of our relationships with those
countries that had been our colonies and where until 1960-
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