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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
China says UK citizenship pathway for Hong Kong residents violates international law

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Reuters
23 July, 2020, 02:35 pm
Last modified: 23 July, 2020, 02:39 pm

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China says UK citizenship pathway for Hong Kong residents violates international law

Britain had made that decision despite opposition from Beijing and China would respond strongly if it was not reversed, the Chinese embassy said in a statement

Reuters
23 July, 2020, 02:35 pm
Last modified: 23 July, 2020, 02:39 pm
China’s national flag is seen waving at the China Consulate General in Houston, Texas, US, July 22, 2020/ Reuters
China’s national flag is seen waving at the China Consulate General in Houston, Texas, US, July 22, 2020/ Reuters

A new British policy allowing Hong Kong residents to claim British citizenship is a violation of international law and interferes with China's internal affairs, China's embassy in London said on Thursday.

British Interior Minister Priti Patel said on Wednesday that Hong Kong people with British National Overseas or BN(O) status would be able to apply for special visas to live in Britain that could eventually lead towards citizenship, starting from January 2021.

Britain had made that decision despite opposition from Beijing and China would respond strongly if it was not reversed, the Chinese embassy said in a statement.

The move "severely violated (Britain's) own commitments, seriously interfered with the internal affairs of China and seriously violated international law and the basic norms of international relations," it said.

London's decision, which could allow nearly three million Hong Kong residents to settle in Britain, came after Beijing imposed new security legislation on the former British colony that democracy activists said would end the freedoms promised in 1997 when the territory was returned to Chinese rule.

The British Consulate General of Hong Kong said in a press release on Thursday that the immigration route offers BN(O) citizens the right to live, work or study in Britain, and was made "following the Chinese government's decision to impose a new National Security Law on Hong Kong".

Britain says the law breaches the terms of the handover treaty agreed in 1984. China accuses Britain of interfering in Hong Kong and Chinese affairs.

"The Chinese side urges the British side to recognise the reality that Hong Kong has returned to China, to look at the Hong Kong national security law objectively and immediately correct its mistakes," the embassy said.

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