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CHIEF SECRETARY HONG KONG
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getting older and it would not be reasonable to expect them to spend a long period in the United Kingdom in order to qualify for full British citizenship. So we very much hope they can be considered as a very special case. We shall go on pressing for this as hard as we can. This issue was also raised in Executive Council yesterday and has been taken up by the Governor with London.
13. All the matters I have outlined above are, I know, of great concern to Members of this Council and to our community. On some of them, the representations of Members of this Council - to which I pay warm tribute --supported by the Administration and by the Executive Council, have been successful in achieving our objectives. On others they have not, thus far, borne fruit. But I want to emphasise to Honourable Members that we understand their concerns, we understand the concerns of the community and we shall go on representing them as strongly as we can to Her Majesty's Government.
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