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abode for those resident in Hong Kong before the transfer of

sovereignty is assured in the Joint Declaration and the Basic

(See the attached sidelined copy of Chapter XIV of the Joint Declaration for chapter and verse). As noted in Hong

Kong's telno 2 to you of 20 October, the Basic Law makes a

similar provision (Chapter III, Article 24 attached.)

5. You may like to be aware that the Hong Kong Legislative

Council debated on 18 November a motion "that this Council

urge the government to examine the problems faced by the ethnic minorities in Hong Kong in terms of their nationality before and after 1997 and to take such steps as may be open to

it to ensure that citizens of the ethnic minorities who have

lived in Hong Kong as permanent residents for many years do

not become stateless in 1997". I attach the speech made by

the Hong Kong Government Secretary for Security which

not of course delivered by a spokesman of HMG

ground in terms we subscribe to.

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while

covers the

Yours

ever,

Deborah Bans toves Плиты

Deborah Barnes Jones

Hong Kong Department

CC: Mr C J Rawlinson, SAD

Mr S Vickers, Security Branch, Hong Kong Government

Srinivasan.NAT

JEB