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CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
E Soden Esq
Assistant Secretary
Home Office
B1 Division
Lunar House CROYDON
Telephone 01-
Noted tim BU. Jwal
weels.
File, Cop HKK 243/2
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
5OCT 1983
DESK OFFICER
INDEX T 233 4381
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Your reference
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REGISTRY
Action Taken
Our reference HKK 243/2
Date 5 October 1983
see (174)
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Bu. No
льновати 1.0.28%
RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
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1. The purpose f this letter is to follow up, albeit somewhat belatedly, a meeting that David Jeaffreson, the Secretary of Security in Hong Kong, had with Hayden Philips in July.
2. Jeaffre son came to
to see us shortly after this meeting and gave Us a brief account of it. We understood him to say that the possibility of a further UK quota had been discussed, and that the Home Office position had been that this was not ruled out / but that it could only be considered as part of a package that included repatriating new arrivals in Hong Kong to Vietnam, thus placing a finite limit on
limit on the numbers who needed to be resettled. As our Secretary of State had emphatically ruled out the possibility of forcible repatriation, and voluntary repatriation is scarcely relevant to Hong Kong's problem, we did not pursue this.
3.
Jeaffreson has, however, now written to say that he had not received the impression that you would consider a quota only in the context of forcible repatriation. He had also understood that you would be taking the issue up with us. I should be grateful to learn your recollection of the discussion.
CC:
Mr Segar, SEAD Mr Peate, UND
sincely.
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CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
CONFIDENTIAL
(MB: prevens papas
about out with
Jeaftreson are on HICK 24311)
(130) 133 (143) (148).