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Vice President Bush's visit to
(13-19 October)
China and Hong
Kong
7.
Hope Vice
President Bush can
importance of full implementation
sensitivity to Hong Kong views.
emphasise to Chinese
of Joint Declaration and
8. Grateful for visit to Hong Kong as
to Hong Kong as gesture of US support for Hong Kong's stability and prosperity.
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Vietnamese Refugees
9. We have just announced decision to accept 500 Vietnamese refugees, almost all from Hong Kong.
Hope this will
encourage others to tak e more. We have also made it clear
that depending on responses from other countries we shall
also consider accepting further limited number from Hong
Kong.
10.
Believe British Embassy have already approached your Government to ask you to take additional numbers. Hope you will consider very carefully whether there is any thing
further you can do to help.
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