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Roger Sims Esq MP
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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 those who had raised points that I felt I had
not answered. You referred to the position of Vietnamese
refugees in Hong Kong and to the question of Orders in
Council under paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Bill.
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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,
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.