Title

Hong Kong passport issue

Genre

Interview

TX Date

11 Jan 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:46

Description

Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd talks to Michael O’Neill about his upcoming visit to Hong Kong and the issue of 225,000 UK passports being given to residents prior to the handover of Hong Kong to China. Some backbenchers are against the offer whilst Hong Kong residents say it doesn’t go far enough. Also on action against Vietnamese boat people.

Contributors

Douglas Hurd; Michael O’Neill

Keywords

UK; Immigration; Immigrants; China; International relations; Commonwealth countries; Hong Kong; George Gardner

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