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The agreements must. also take account of the change of sovereignty. VAA's valid only to 1997 would enable our BDTC's and BN (O) "s to travel freely for a
Tow more years. But they would do little for public Confidence in the future. When they lapsed, we would have to renegotiate them and, in some cases, there could be a hiatus between expiry and renewal. Therefore, we propose to seek open-dated agreement s whenever possible. These would bear no expiry date and
would therefore straddle 1997.
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In principle, these agreements should cover all people whom we recognize as permanently resident here and whom we will readily readmit to Hong Kong That includes people holding ROTC and BN (0) passports, and those with Certificates of Identity (CI). future they will also include IKSAR passport holders. Ideally, we should seek to include all these people in each agreement. But it may be diff: cult. to persuaće other countries to include CT holders, given the
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