TNAG-2185-FCO40-3122-Ethnic-minorities-in-Hong-Kong-1990 — Page 43

From The Minister of State

The Hon Francis Maude MP

E P Ho Esq 6 Lloyd Path The Peak

HONG KONG

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

13 July 1990

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Thank you for your letter of 23 May about the position of the Eurasian community in Hong Kong.

As you are aware we have given very careful consideration

to the position of the Eurasian Community. As I mentioned in my letter of 15 May, it is the Government's view that

if any Eurasians were not to be regarded as Chinese after

1997, the same safeguards available to other members of the non-Chinese ethnic minorities would also apply to

them. The non-Chinese ethnic minorities' right of abode

in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong is explicitly protected in the Sino-British Joint Declaration

and the Basic Law. In addition, the Hong Kong (British

Nationality) Order 1986 already gives the ethnic minorities a further assurance by providing subsequent

children and grandchildren of those who are British