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THE PRIME MINISTER
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20 June 1979
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Dear Gerry.
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Thank you for your letter of 6 June enclosing this one from
your constituent Mr. Roy Anthony Fisher of Treharrock, Port Isaac, Cornwall.
I was glad to have Mr. Fisher's letter and can well under-
stand his feelings. Although the Government reached the
conclusion that it was right to accept refugees from the Sibonga
and Roachbank, we have been most careful to avoid any kind of
open-ended commitment as regards future cases. This kind of
decision is extremely difficult. We take account of humanitarian
considerations when faced with a group of people rescued at sea
by a British ship who have nowhere else to go and we thought it
right to admit the people on the Sibonga and Roachbank as refugees.
Of course, the real responsibility for their plight rests with the
Vietnamese authorities and the Government has done all it can to
draw international attention to their conduct and to seek an inter-
national conference so that the problem may be faced by the
international community as a whole.
The Government's commitment to strict control on immigration is important. I can assure you that we intend to implement it.
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Gerry Neale, Esq., M.P.