wishes of this House by making that further statement, the Government have provided a very clear assurance to members of the minority communities in Hong Kong.
The Government believe that the nationality provisions we propose, coupled with the guarantees of right of abode in Hong Kong and with the further assurances that I have just given, properly and fully meet the needs of all British Dependent Territories citizens of Hong Kong, whatever their ethnic origin. We are fully satisfied that they provide a secure basis from which the people of Hong Kong can look confidently to the future. The proposals are fair, just and fitting.
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LORD GLENARTHUR ON 23.03.89:
In response to request fromLord Wyatt of Weeford that HMG
reconsider their policy on issue of British Passports to Hong Kong citizens
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The noble Lord, Lord Bonham-Carter, mentioned the ethnic minorities.
I hope that he will look at a careful speech that I made in your Lordships' House on 16 May 1986 when I addressed that problem. The kernel of my remarks was that we should consider it an obligation upon any future government to treat with considerable and particular sympathy the case for admission to the United Kingdom of any individual British national who against all our present expectations, came under pressure to leave Hong Kong. I hope that the noble Lord will study the debate in full.
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THE PRIME MINISTER ON 28.01.90: (Letter to Dr Norman A Godman, MP)
British nationals have the specific Parliamentary assurance, given on a number of occasions, that if any solely British national with no claim to Chinese nationality came under severe pressure to leave Hong Kong, the Government of the day would be expected to consider with considerable and particular sympathy their case for admission to the United Kingdom. We stand firmly by that statement.
PETER LLOYD, PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE ON 29.01.90: (Letter to John Fraser Esq, MP)
Beyond that, British nationals have the specific Parliamentary assurance, given on a number of occasions, that if any solely British national with no claim to Chinese nationality came under severe pressure to leave Hong Kong, the government of the day would be expected to consider with considerable and particular sympathy their case for admission to the United Kingdom. We stand by that assurance.
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