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PUS's TALKS WITH THE INDIAN FOREIGN SECRETARY: 12 MARCH 1992

Hong Kong Indian Community (defensive)

Points to Make

After your Foreign Minister raised the subject at

New Delhi airport on 18 January, the Secretary of State

instructed our High Commission to brief your MFA about Indian nationals in Hong Kong.

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Trust this provided the required reassurance?

(If pressed)

There are about 11,000 Indians in Hong Kong, only 3,000 of

whom have no other nationality than Hong Kong British Dependent Territory Citizenship. All are eligible to trade this for a form of British nationality that will survive

1997.

- HMG is on record that if any ever come under pressure

to leave Hong Kong in the future and have nowhere else to go, the government of the day would consider with particular sympathy any request for admission to the UK.

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