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COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, LIMASSOL 3 11 SEPTEMBER
POINTS TO MAKE
(Defensive Briefing)
HONG KONG
Ethnic Minorities
Recognise the contribution made to Hong Kong by this community; they have an important part to play in ensuring the continuing prosperity and stability of Hong Kong.
- Case for British citizenship was carefully considered during passage of British Nationality (Hong Kong) Act 1990. It has been reviewed again recently. The Government decided against making special legislative provision for the ethnic minorities.
Stand by reassurances given by this and previous Governments; we consider it an obligation upon any future government to consider with particular sympathy the case for admission to the United Kingdom of any Hong Kong resident with solely British nationality in the unlikely event of their coming under severe pressure to leave Hong Kong and having nowhere else to go.
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This community will not become stateless they will retain British Nationality after 1997; either British National (Overseas) BN (O), or British Overseas Citizen (BOC). Neither will their children or grandchildren be stateless.
- Their entitlement to British consular protection continues whichever form of British nationality they may have (including in the future Special Administrative Region).
Their future right of abode in Hong Kong is secured under
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