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175 Sir Patrick Wall (Haltemprice): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs, if he will approach the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and request him to speed up the re-settlement of Vietnamese refugees now in Hong Kong.
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We shall continue to take every suitable opportunity to draw the
attention both of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, and of countries of possible resettlement, to the
numbers of refugees remaining in Hong Kong. For example, our
Permanent Representative in Geneva made an urgent appeal on
12 October in his statement to this year's meeting of the
Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.