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INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING UKREP JLG HONG KONG

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PEKING TELNO 107 TO YOU: CONSULAR PROTECTION

1. YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THE CHINESE LANGUAGE MING PAO OF 20 JANUARY REPORTED THAT DURING A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW WITH THE PAPER, AN FCO SPOKESMAN IN LONDON MADE THE FOLLOWING POINTS

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(A) THOSE HONG KONG BRITISH CITIZENS WHO WERE NOT CHINESE NATIONALS WOULD BE ENTITLED TO BRITISH CONSULAR PROTECTION AFTER 1997:

(B) POST-1997, THOSE HONG KONG CHINESE WHO HAD OBTAINED BC PASSPORTS WOULD NOT HAVE BRITISH CONSULAR PROTECTION UNLESS THEY HAD RENOUNCED THEIR CHINESE NATIONALITY:

(C) THE STATEMENT MADE BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY ABOUT THE RIGHT TO BRITISH CONSULAR PROTECTION OF THOSE COVERED BY THE UK NATIONALITY PACKAGE WAS A STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE ONLY: HE COULD NOT BE EXPECTED TO ELABORATE ON DIFFERENT SPECIFIC CASES: AND

(D) PRE-1997, HONG KONG BDTCS WERE ENTITLED TO BRITISH CONSULAR PROTECTION WHEN IN CHINA, UNLESS SUCH PERSONS HAPPENED TO HOLD PASSPORTS ISSUED BY CHINA.

2. THE ARTICLE FOLLOWS FOR PAUL. HKD BY FAX.

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