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24 MAY

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AIPCHIPT H:

SELECT COMMITTER RR HONG KONG

24 MAY 1989

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B. IX RANTON (CONTD) :

everyone in that empire had a right

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Kingdom and Colony

in effect to come here if they wished and settle bere. had the principle of successive governments of moving away

from that since 1960.

I believe a totally different set of principles motivated us in gaining access to the Community in signing

This was an economic community in the Treaty of Rome.

which we wished to participate fully and one of the conditions of joining that Community was in effect free right of movement for BEC nationals in and out of each

other's countries but, of course,

in all of those EEC

countries immigration controls of one sort

or another on

third country nationals coming into the Community and

moving

about within the Community.

There is not all that much difference between our

immigration controls in regard to third party nationals and those exercised by other BBC countries.

CHAIRMAT:

I think we would like to pursue the question of the European Community and the dependent territories of other European Community members in a moment, but on this

general principle, Mr. Bowen Wells.

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