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Nationality of ethnic minorities

3.

Ms Emily LAU welcomed Dr Simon Vickers, Mr Keith

KWOK and Mr K S CHEUNG to the meeting, The following

points were made by representatives of the Administration :

(a) Members' views on the subject as expressed at the

recent motion debate in the Legislative Council

had been conveyed to Britain as the grant of

British citizenship was a matter for Ber

Majesty's Government. In conveying the views,

the Hong Kong Government had asked for them to be

considered seriously but not made any specific

recommendation on the issue partly because this

might be inappropriate and partly because of the

lack of a clear position of the Counzi) (e.g

were Members asking for special consideration by

RMG or actual preference for Indian and Pakistani

BDTCS over HK Chinese BDTCS for any passports

available). It had however asked the British

Government to note Members' strong feeling.

(b) The Hong Kong Government did not keep record of

its people's ethnic origin and would not wish to

probe, in principle e.g. on part-ethnicity, and

therefore did not have information on the exact

number of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.