TNAG-2939-FCO40-4215-Future-of-Hong-Kong-nationality-ethnic-minorities-1993 — Page 10

Thaukky

Jail,

Mv Mathis to be aware on nationality, package 2) Mr Woodrow / Miss

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me

X was presumably

briefing

covered in buieping

I think so. See File bit supp

nationality / BNS (hullpoints / backgnund). I will then adapt /update in live with

Dec 1989 - Jam 1990.

س

the moment round of leglo calls & draft wrening letter (finion 20/1). Plus Ethnic minority files.

20/1.

0124

see Jolio 788

on HKD 340/8 (1989)

British Embassy

Bonn

18

14 January 1993

Deborah Barnes-Jones Hong Kong Department

FCO

Dear Deborah,

Mis Bernes Jones

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 77

5300 Bonn 1

Telephone: (0228) 23 40 61 Telex: 886887 (a/b BRINF-D)

Facsimile: (0228) 234070, 237058

Briefing

material attached. I

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FCO TELNO 4 TO BANGKOK: VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS: RETURNS TO VIETNAM

1.

We took action as instructed by TUR. Michael Ebel, the Desk Officer responsible for Hong Kong in the MFA, thanked us for the information and said he would circulate it further. The statistics for migrants last year were indeed good.

2.

I need your help on another Hong Kong matter. Recently, Count Otto von Lambsdorff, Chairman of the Free Democrats, visited Hong Kong. On returning to Bonn, he put a number of questions to the MFA which they need our help to answer.

3.

Von Lambsdorff is concerned about the fate of the British passport holders in Hong Kong. Who is eligible for UK citizenship? Who is not and what are the criteria for eligibility? What is likely to happen to those not eligible come 1997? Are there people in Hong Kong who hold both British and Chinese passports and what are their citizenship rights? understand that von Lambsdorff is particularly concerned about Pakistani and Indian British passport holders. Overall, the MFA would be grateful for our view of the citizenship question. Do we intend to discuss it in the EC (we may already have done so, I did not know)?

I

4. I imagine that by British passport holders, von Lambsdorff means British Dependent Territories' citizens.

C W Ross

Yours ever,

Curne

Second Secretary (Political)

cc: Political Section, Hong Kong

IN

Chris Kelly Esq, B4 Division, Home Office

HKD 340/6

03FEB 1993

Tane.

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