PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer cn18... Jary 1979
HK v GD.
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by
NOON ON WEDNESDAY 17 JANUARY 1979.
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Mr Nigel Lawson (Blaby): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what action Her Majesty's Government has taken to secure an inter- national solution to the problem of the 2,700 Vietnamese refugees on board the SS "Huey Fong" at present anchored off Hong Kong and those on similar vessels in the future.
A.
The Government actively support the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees' efforts to find solutions
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to the tragic problems of Indo-Chinese refugees. Mr hon
Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Mr Luard)
reported on the recent international consultations, which he
attended, in the Adjournment Debate on the 15th of December.