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Lord Goronwy-Roberts agreed that returns would
be entirely defensible if he could say in Parliament
after the event that in the light of individual
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interrogation of members of the group, and in the
bigat of assurances given by the Saigon Government,
the Government was satisfied that there were no
special circumstances which could justify refusal
to return;
that members of the group had established that
no claim to residence in Hong Kong and there were no
that special medical or humanitarian considerations;
previous cases had shown that the assurances of the
South Vietnamese Government were reliable; and
that the group had therefore been returned, with the exception (where appropriate) of those to whom
such special considerations applied.
the Ganemos model 5. Lord Goronwy-Roberts said that, given that the undertaking that the
actions of the Hong Kong Government would allow him
to speak on these lines, he was content.
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6. Lord Goronwy-Roberts said that he would like
to detach this question from that of illegal
immigrants from third countries. Very probably
organisations like Amnesty International, which had a
political bias, would be less concerned about the
return of immigrants to China than to a non-Communist
country like Vietnam.
7. Sir Murray MacLehose agreed but said that
if illegal immigrants were returned to China, there
was likely to be trouble from their relatives in
Hong Kong. However, the pressure of immigration into
Hong Kong required some solution.
This would mean
action by the Chinese Government to cut down legal
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