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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
For WRITTEN ANSWER on 21 March 1983
Text of Question
Head of
HKGD
Please submit :-
a draft Answer
& background
to Parliamentary Unit before Noon
FRIDAY 18 March
Mr Tom Arnold (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in view of the statement, Official Report, 14 March, column 40, that Hong Kong cannot be expected any more Vietnamese refugees for resettlement, what is his policy towards future arrivals in the colony of Vietnamese refugees.
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Mr Malcolm Rifkind
The present policy is to provide a place of first asylum
for refugees from Vietnam, pending eventual resettlement
countries
in other centres through the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees.
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