ng Kong the 10,000 additional refugees from Indo-
China, who, at the request of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees we have agreed to accept for settlement, and about
whom Lord Carrington spoke at the recent meeting at
Geneva. We are also doing all we can to ensure that
Hong Kong gets its full share of the resettlement places
offered by other countries.
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1.1
In deciding to make additional resettlement places
available in the United Kingdom, the Government considered
the humanitarian considerations to be overriding,although we
took full account of is commitment to strict control of immigration.
We shall certainly continue to pursue policies to this end
irrespective of any concessions made on humanitarian grounds
in favour of refugees.
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At Geneva 260,000 offers were made of resettlement places for Indo-Chinese refugees. According to the French F Minister, France had since 1975 accepted as many as 61,000
refugees and had agreed to take a further 5,000.
I enclose Professor Potts' letter.
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