TNAG-2383-FCO40-3465-Hong-Kong-nationality-ethnic-minorities-in-Hong-Kong-1991 — Page 13

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25 7 1991 E-1 1120 DVA

Q. 143 cd

3470

(Shri Dal K, Advani cd )

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It has become one of the biggest financial centres in

the world and these Indians have contributed

a lot.

It is the responsibility of our Government to see that

there and I they do not become second class citizens understand that the High Commissiner there had stated

This is a very that we are seriously considering it. crucial thing which the Government must attend to and

that too not only in the context of

Hong Kong but

Is the Government

in respect of all Indians overscas. willing to consider the possibility of getting dual citizen-

ship for Indians abroad on the basis of reciprocity

with those countries?

Shri Madhavsinh Silanki : I have just now said that the

matter is under consideration.

No decision has yet

citizens,

been taken. But as regards the state-less normally those persons who do not possessess any travel documents or who have no right to abode are considered

to be state-loss. are given passports by the British and the Chinese Govern- ment are accepting them on the basis of seven years' stay that is, continuous stay in Hong Kong, with a right to

abode and their right to work also.

Here in this case, in Hong Kong, they

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