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1989-07-01 12:34 COI RADIO TECH SERVICES.

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TRANSCRIPT D: FORKIGI SKC P.C. HỒNG TONG 4 JULY 1989

FROM JABBS LER FÜR COI RADIO SERVICES

TRANSCRIPT OF PRRAS COTPEPRECH

GIVEN BY THE PORBIGE SECRETARY, SIR GEOFFREY HOVE,

IN HONG KONG,

ON TUESDAY, 4 JULY 1969

AMOGRIFT D

(CONTINUND PAGI TRAYSCNIFT C)

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If this is your final word now on right of abode, obviously

all Hong Kong now is going to be terribly keen to know who are going

to be the lucky 100,000, 150,000 or whatever it is for whom these

immigration rules are going to be waived or changed in some way.

Your officials have suggested that this is going to be set up

before the Summer Recess, about eight weeks away and I understand at

the moment you do not want to say too much about who is going to be

selected, what type of people are going to be selected, but who is

going to do the selecting?

Vill it be a comittee in London?

Is

it going to be a committee in Hong Kong of people that are going to

vet applications?

Are the names going to be published in the

"South China Post" like the New Year's Honours List or what?

FORBIGI BHCRETARY:

That is an interesting range of questioma, to which the

answer remains a I said in my Statement, that we intend to make an

early announcement of a scheme and you will have to contain your

curiosity until than

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