?eqistry HKK 14/5 DRAFT
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
To:-
CONFIDENTIAL
LETTER
A E Donald Esq
Political Adviser
Colonial Secretariat
HONG KONG
In Confidence
cc:
Chanceries:
Saigon Phnom Penh Peking
to
Type 1 +
FROM
A C Stuart
Telephone No. Ext,
Department
POLICY ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTH-EAST ASIA
1.
I told you in my letter of 9 October that we would be submitting your letter of 27 September to Ministers. Lord Goronwy-Roberts has now been consulted and broadly agrees with the guidelines set out in your letter, provided always that we are consulted in cases where there may be difficulty.
2.
You referred in your letter to the general conditions laid down by Lord Goronwy-Roberts in his meeting with the Governor on 25 July. These were that
future returns to South Vietnam would be defensible if
he could say in Parliament after the event:
(a)
(b)
that in the light of individual
interrogation of members of the group, and of assurances given by the Saigon
Government, IM Government were satisfied
that there were no special circumstances
which could have justified refusal to
return;
that members of the group had established no claim to residence in Hong Kong and
there were no special medical or
humanitarian considerations;
(c)
that previous cases had shown that the
assurances of the South Vietnamese
Government were reliable;
and
(a)
that the group had therefore been returned, with the exception (where appropriate) of
those to whom such special considerations
applied.
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