will not however be
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asked to
implement SCORRI's
recommendation that the closed camp policy be
discontinued, because we consider it to be a necessary
deterrment to further arrivals from Vietnam.
26. These decisions will be announced in a Home Office
White Paper in response to SCORRI due
due to be published
on 26 September. (The White Paper will
the
Home
recommendations
Office's
response
to
also contain
the other
in the report, which relate to the
problems of the Vietnamese in Britain, and UK Asylum
procedures.)
27. Immediately after publication of the White Paper
we shall be launching
launching a diplomatic campaign aimed at
persuading other countries to increase their intake of
refugees from Hong Kong.
As well as instructing
diplomatic posts to approach their host governments
(both those which traditionally take large numbers of
refugees from
from Hong Kong, ie US,
ie US, Canada, and Australia,
and those others which have hitherto only accepted
refugees on an irregular basis), we shall be briefing
Ministers and senior officials to raise the matter in
bilateral
multilateral meetings whenever
opportunities arise. We shall also be asking UNHCR to
parallel approaches to these countries on our
mak e
behalf.
and
Hong Kong Dollar Finance for Commercial Contracts
28. ECGD have
authority to guarantee fixed rate
project finance in "standard" currencies (including sterling and the United States dollar) but must seek Treasury agreement for financing in "non-standard"
currencies (such as the Hong Kong Dollar). Fixed rate
project finance in these currencies is not authorised
unless evidence exists of a similar arrangement being
offered by a competing contractor.
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