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TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELNO 249

OF 19080OZ JANUARY 90

VIC 340

RECEIVED PS

22 JAN 1990

DESK OFFICE

INDEX

INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING, UKREP JLG HONG KONG

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BLDC POLITICAL SUBGROUP MEETING: NATIONALITY RELATED ISSUES: MEDIA REPORTS

THE BLDC POLITICAL SUBGROUP WAS REPORTED WIDELY TO HAVE DECIDED ON THE FOLLOWING AT ITS MEETING YESTERDAY

(A) THE POSTS OF D. OF IMMIGRATION AND COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE TO BE ADDED TO PARA. 1 OF ART. 100, THUS IMPOSING THE NATIONALITY AND RIGHT OF ABODE RESTRICTIONS ON THESE TWO POSTS ASWELL: AND

(B) ARTICLE 103 TO BE AMENDED TO REQUIRE THE OFFICIALS LISTED THEREIN TO PLEDGE SUPPORT TO THE BL AND TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAR.

2. IT WAS ALSO REPORTED WIDELY THAT THE SUBGROUP HAD DISCUSSED THE QUESTION OF SETTING UP AN ORGAN IN HONG KONG TO HANDLE APPLICATIONS FOR, AND RENUCIATION OF, CHINESE NATIONALITY. RAYMOND WU WAS QUOTED AS HAVING SAID THAT SOME ETHNIC MINORITIES MIGHT BECOME STATELESS AFTER 1997 AND WAYS SHOULD BE FOUND FOR THOSE WHO WISHED TO APPLY FOR CHINESE NATIONALITY.

3. THE SUBGROUP WAS REPORTED TO HAVE DECIDED (NOTE: SOME PAPERS REFER TO THIS AS A MAJORITY VIEW) THAT THE QUESTION OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ART. 12 OF THE CNL SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO THE

,TANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NPC FOR CONSIDERATION, AS THE POWER OF INTERPRETING CHINESE LAWS WAS VESTED IN THE COMMITTEE. THE SUBGROUP WAS REPORTED TO FAVOUR SPECIAL TREATMENT TO BE GIVEN TO HONG KONG. SOME PAPERS ALSO QUOTED XIAO WEIYUN AS HAVING COMMENTED THAT THIS PROBLEM COULD ONLY BE SOLVED AFTER 1997 AS PRE-97, THE NPC HAD NO JURISDICTION OVER HONG KONG.

4. THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA REPORTED THAT THE SUBGROUP HAD DECIDED TO DROP THE PROPOSAL MENTIONED IN PARA 3 OF OUR TELNO 239 TO YOU.

5. THE PRESS ARTICLES FOLLOW BY FAX.

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