ANNEX C
PRESS NOTICE
The Prime Minister, in consultation with the Home Secretary and the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, has decided on
humanitarian grounds that this country will accept
responsibility for the refugees from Vietnam on board MV Sibonga, who were rescued on the high seas.
They have been in touch with the Governor of Hong Kong.
In taking this decision the British Government stresses that it cannot make any general commitment about similar action in future. Consultation will be pursued urgently with the
Government of Hong Kong and the international community about the
whole problem of refugees from Indo-China.
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