TNAG-1899-FCO40-2697-Future-of-Hong-Kong-briefing-1989 — Page 50

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C NATIONALITY

INTERNATIONAL SOLUTION

We are well aware of proposals for an international guarantee to

provide a home for all Hong Kong people. But we do not believe that this would be a viable way forward in present circumstances.

Some countries are already taking significant numbers of Hong Kong people for settlement. But they also have immigration commitments.

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It would other countries be frankly unrealistic to expect to make a commitment of the order of magnitude necessary to accommodate the entire population of Hong Kong.