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In my speech winding up the debate on the Second Reading
of the Hong Kong Bill on 21 January, I said that I would
write to Members who had raised points to which I did not
feel that I had replied. You raised the question of
Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong, to which I was only
able to refer briefly.
The Government is making every effort, in cooperation
with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
and other countries, to seek permanent solutions for the
refugees who are in Hong Kong and other places of first
asylum. Over the past few years,
Britain has played a
major role in tackling the problem of Indo-Chinese
refugees. We have accepted 19,000, most of them from Hong
Kong, for resettlement here. We shall continue to do
what we can to bring about an early solution of the
problem.