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On the rh G's last point,

has arrangements ready.

If necessary,

my rh F the

at the right time he

Home Secry

will make a statement on the subject.

SIR PAUL BRYAN: Is the Ld Privy Seal aware that

the Gout's

new gesture

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the people of Hong Kong will be grateful for

fou

and any further pledges

that may be made at the Geneva Conference tomorrow?

further

Will he

ask the Foreign Secry when he is at that conference to do his utmost to see that Hong Kong gets its fair share of the sum of those pledges? months Malaysia has had 40 per cent. of its intake of refugees resettled, whereas Hong Kong, with 65,000 refugees in its camps, has had only 8.5 per cent. accepted for resettlement?

Is my rh F aware that over the past six

not discrimination in favour of inhumanity?

Is that

have been

No boats crammed with refugees/towed out to sea from Hong Kong.

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SIR I. GILMOUR: I have a great deal of sympathy with what my h F says. There is no doubt that the Hong Kong Govt

have behaved in an exemplary fashion.

I am hopeful and

confident that what we have agreed to do will set an example

the

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to other countries in international communite to help Hồng Kong- As my h F knows, the situation there is growing more grave

There are still thousands of refugees arriving.

daily.

It is imperative that as a result of the Geneva fonterme

other countries should agree to help Hong Kong with the

appalling problem with which it is faced.

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