TNAG-1853-FCO40-2628-House-of-Commons-Select-Committee-on-Foreign-Affairs-enquiry-1989 — Page 58

NATIONALITY

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Objective

- To explain complexities of issues involved and to emphasise our detemination to get details right

Points to make

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Aware that announcement is awaited anxiously in Hong Kong and UK.

But precise form of assurances, criteria on which selection of those eligible should be based and legislative implications are extremely

complex issues, and it is important to get package right.

one.

Scheme will not focus exclusively or particularly on rich or

priveleged: important criterion for eligibility will be value of service to Hong Kong. To extent that scheme succeeds in mitigating

effects of emigration of talented people from Hong Kong, it should benefit community as whole.

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