24 MAY 89 23:22
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TRANSCRIPT J: SELECT COMMITTEE RE HONG KONG 24 MAY 1989
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MR. TIM RENTON;
I am afraid we do not know the answer to that and we
do not have any statistics on that.
We understand that
there are something like 15,000 of non-Chinese ethnic
minority in Hong Kong, of which the great part are
Indians, but we do not know at the moment how many of
those have taken up BNO passports all have got BDTC
passports.
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CHAIRMAN:
We want to come also to their particular position in
later questioning.
IR.
IVAN LAWRENCE:
Ve had a very interesting presentation this morning
from the Hong Kong Link, which is an organisation that
will be very well known to you, and they spent some time
this morning trying to persuade us that we have some kind
of human rights obligations under the various articles of
the international treaties which oblige us, quite apart
from the purely legal or the purely immigration matters,
to give citizenship to the three-and-a-quarter million.
Has the Home Office got a response to the human
rights suggestion?
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