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1. Action as in para. 4.pl.
2. Enlin
T/L HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE, LONDON
GPS 240
CONFIDENTIAL
TELELETTER
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8/3
MKK 243/1
RECEIVED IN YENU,
- ε MAR 1983
DESK INDEXX
NO. 51
REGISTRY Ac.on Tak
снов
45
FROM: D.G. JEAFFRESON, HONG KONG
FILE REF: NIL
DATE 4 MARCH 1983
FOLLOWING FOR:
S.J. GOMERSALL, WASHINGTON
COPIED TO:
R.D. CLIFT ESQ., HKGD FCO
J.F.X. BURNS ESQ., SEAD FCO
SIR J. CATER, HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE, LONDON
C.W. LONG ESQ, UKMIS GENEVA
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
1. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TELELETTER OF 28 JANUARY TO L.M. DAVIES
(WHOM I HAVE SUCCEEDED AS SECRETARY FOR SECURITY).
2. TO UPDATE YOU ON CURRENT POSITION, I SAW CUMMINGS OF US
CONSULATE ON 23 FEBRUARY. HE REPEATED THAT THE FUTURE US OFFTAKE
WILL AVERAGE 100 PER MONTH (AS IT IS NOW DOING). HE ALSO ADVISED
THAT JVA AND UNHCR WERE NOW JOINTLY LOOKING AT RESIDUALS' HERE WHO MIGHT HAVE HAD A CHANCE OF US RESETTLEMENT EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE
DEBARRED BY PREVIOUS REFUSAL OF A US OR UK OFFER, OR WERE PRC-1982 CATEGORY 4E CASES WHO MISSED OUT WHEN PROCESSING OF SUCH CASES DID
NOT RESTART IN APRIL 1982. THIS REEXAMINATION WILL BE CASE BY CASE,
AND WE DO NOT YET KNOW IF IT WILL RESULT IN MANY NEW ACCEPTANCES
BY THE US. ALSO IT MAY WELL BE THAT THESE WILL BE WITHIN THE
UNOFFICIAL 100 PER MONTH QUOTA, AND THUS AT THE EXPENSE OF MORE
RECENT ARRIVALS.
3. WE WILL INFORM YOU OF THE OUTCOME OF THIS EXERCISE.
4. HKGD PLEASE PASS TO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON.
SIGNED: D.G. JEAFFRESON
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