[109310] in Cypherpunks
Britain to offer citizenship to residents of territories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Mar 17 20:30:58 1999
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:00:49 -0500
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Looks like Vince will be hailing Brittania after he gets tired of
Mozambiquan citizenship. :-).
Cheers,
RAH
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:49:49 -0800 (PST)
From: William Knowles <erehwon@kizmiaz.dis.org>
To: Digital Commerce Society of Boston <dcsb@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Britain to offer citizenship to residents of territories
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LONDON (AP) [3.17.99] - Britain will offer citizenship to residents
in its remaining colonies and will require the territories to tighten
their financial rules and repeal corporal punishment.
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said the possessions now known as
Dependent Territories would be renamed United Kingdom Overseas
Territories.
The Falkland Islands and Gibraltar are not included in the new
proposals, which were announced Wednesday and are subject to approval
by Parliament. Residents of those territories already have the right
of abode in Britain.
The dependent territories, the remnants of Britain's Empire, include
Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat,
Pitcairn Islands, St. Helena, Ascension Island, Tristan de Cunha, and
the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Britain also administers territories that have no permanent
population: The British Indian Ocean Territory, which includes the
military base at Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands; British
Antarctic Territory, and South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands.
``We do not expect this change in status to result in any substantial
number taking up permanent residence in the United Kingdom,'' Cook
told the House of Commons.
The Overseas Territories will be required, by the end of this year, to
meet international standards on money laundering, transparency,
cooperation with law enforcement authorities and independent financial
regulation, Cook said.
They will also have to match European standards of human rights.
``Specifically, we require changes in the law in a minority of
Overseas Territories which retain corporal punishment and criminalize
consensual homosexual acts in private,'' Cook said.
If any territory balked, Britain would make reforms through an Order
in Council, he said.
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