TNAG-2158-FCO40-3078-Hong-Kong-nationality-package-Chinese-views-1990 — Page 70

CONFIDENTIAL

HKC340/1

101612

MDHIAN 1989

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26 MAR 1990

CONFIDENTIAL

FM PEKING

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 420

OF 20082OZ MARCH 90

INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG, UKREP JLG HONG KONG

DESK OFFICER

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NH 2013

HONG KONG TELNOS 957-959.

UK NATIONALITY SCHEME: CHINESE VIEWS.

1.

WE ARE BROADLY CONTENT WITH THE DRAFT MATERIAL IN SECOND AND THIRD TURS ON WHICH WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING, MAINLY MINOR, COMMENTS:

SECOND TUR:

(A) PARA 2, LINE 1: DELETE ''CAUSE OF THE''

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(B) PARA 5, LAST LINE: INSERT ''AND' BEFORE ''PROSPERITY''

THIRD TUR:

(A) PARA 2, LINE 3: DELETE ''TO''.

(B) PARA 2, FINAL SENTENCE: THE BEGINNING STRIKES A PATRONISING

NOTE. WE THINK THE SENTENCE SHOULD BEGIN 'HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT TAKE ON ..... ETC**

(C) PARA 3, LAST SENTENCE: WE SUGGEST THIS MIGHT BETTER READ

''A DEDICATED AND PROFESSIONAL CIVIL SERVICE, WHICH HAS BEEN A CORNER-STONE OF STABLE AND EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG, WILL BE NEEDED IN THE YEARS AHEAD''

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(D) PARA 4, FIRST SENTENCE: INSERT IN HONG KONG'' AFTER ''PUBLIC

SERVICE AND SUBSTITUTE ''THE TERRITORY'' FOR ''HONG KONG'' AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE.

(E) PARA 6, PENULTIMATE SENTENCE: WE SUGGEST THIS MIGHT BETTER

READ ''WE WISH TO DISPEL THE DOUBTS AND UNCERTAINTIES ABOUT 1997 OF AS MANY HONG KONG PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS AND TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO SERVE HONG KONG ON THIS BASIS''.

2. WE MAY WISH TO COMMENT ON TURS AGAIN IN THE LIGHT OF THE ADDITIONAL MATERIAL BEING PREPARED BY THE DEPARTMENT. IN THE MEANTIME, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING HONG KONG'S SUGGESTIONS FOR THE Q AND A BRIEF.

DONALD