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1. The Home Secretary wrote to the Secretary of State on 15 November
following his talk with the Governor about a new UK resettlement quota
for Vietnamese refugees.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that the Secretary of State replies to Mr Whitelaw on
the lines of the attached draft. The Hong Kong Government have been
consulted. I also recommend that a telegram on the lines of the
attached draft be sent to the Governor. SEAD and UND concur.
Background and Argument
3.
The Home Secretary wrote to Lord Carrington on 15 November follow-
ing his meeting with the Governor on 6 November (a copy of the record
of the meeting is attached). It followed very much the line anticipated
during the earlier meeting which the Secretary of State had with the
Governor on 5 November.
4.
The consensus of these meetings was that it would be very difficult
to obtain Cabinet agreement to a further quota for Hong Kong but the
case for one should be made nearer the time of completion of the
existing quota. It would only then be possible to argue with conviction
that, unless there was to be a further UK quota, other resettlement
countries, particularly the US, would not renew their own programmes.
The Governor was also very anxious that there should not be a negative
response now because of the immediate effect this could have on these
other programmes.
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