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TELNO 122
OF 20183OZ FEBRUARY 91
HKD 349
TOP COPY Q DIST?
INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG, OTTAWA, WASHINGTON
YOUR TELNO 65 POLISH IMMIGRATION
SUMMARY
1.
MFA PUTS
IMMIGRATION/INVESTMENT FROM HONG KONG INTO PERSPECTIVE. NO BASIS AT PRESENT FOR PACKAGE DEAL WITH FACILITATING AGENT. PATTERN OF INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS/SETTLERS MORE LIKELY AT
LEAST TO BEGIN WITH.
DETAIL
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DHM DISCUSSED POLISH PLANS WITH MULEWICZ (DIRECTOR, INTERNATION- AL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT, MFA) ON 19 FEBRUARY. MULEWICZ EXPLAINED THAT, APART FROM KOSTECKI, THERE WERE TWO OR THREE OTHER PEOPLE (INCLUDING A HONG KONG CHINESE) WHO HAD TRIED TO REACH AN AGREEMENT WITH THE POLISH GOVERNMENT RECOGNISING THEM AS THE LATTER'S AGENTS FOR ATTRACTING INVESTMENT AND IMMIGRANTS. HOWEVER NONE HAD BEEN ABLE TO GIVE ANY INDICATION AS TO HOW MANY IMMIGRANTS AND HOW MUCH MONEY MIGHT BE INVOLVED. THE POLISH AUTHOR- ITIES WERE ALWAYS READY TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE DEALS, BUT WHAT THEY HAD HEARD SO FAR DID NOT PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR STRIKING ANY.
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MULEWICZ WENT ON THAT SOME OF THE POLES' INTERLOCUTORS HAD SUGGESTED THAT THE PICK OF WOULD BE INVESTORS/EMIGRANTS FROM HONG KONG HAD ALREADY MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO GO TO CANADA OR THE US. AT BEST THEREFORE THE POLES COULD EXPECT NO MORE THAN SECOND ORDER INVESTORS. MOREOVER, HE ARGUED THAT HUNGARIAN EXPERIENCE SUGGESTED THAT LARGE SCALE AGREEMENTS ON IMMIGRATION/INVESTMENT NEEDED TO BE HANDLED WITH SPECIAL CARE (THE BUDAPEST MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES HAD APPARENTLY FOUND GREAT DIFFICULTY COPING WITH THE IMPLICATIONS OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HUNGARIAN AUTHORITIES AND A ''SEMI- PRIVATE' COMPANY IN HONG KONG).
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THE NEED FOR CAUTION WAS REINFORCED IN POLAND'S CASE BY THE FACT THAT WOULD BE IMMIGRANTS OR INVESTORS DID NOT NEED THE UMBRELLA OF AN AGREEMENT IN ORDER TO SETTLE IN POLAND. UNDER EXIST- ING LEGISLATION, THEY WERE FREE TO INVEST IN THE COUNTRY, APPLY FOR FOR CITIZENSHIP AFTER TWO YEARS AND OBTAIN IT AFTER FIVE YEARS. MULEWICZ SAID THAT, ALL IN ALL, IT WAS
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