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Mr Anderson wrote to Mr Luce on 15 April asking for information
on the current situation over the Joint Liaison Group in the light of press speculation that we had proposed John Chan (
official in the Hong Kong Government) as a member of the Group but
that the Chinese were vigorously objecting to his inclusion.
Mr Luce replied that he could not go
certain
into the details of our discussions with the Chinese on the
establishment of the Group.
However the British delegation would include officials from
the Hong Kong Government (this is since the Chinese have already accepted a non-Chinese official of
the Hong Kong Government who possesses full British citizenship).
Mr Luce added that press speculation regarding the inclusion particular individuals was simply speculation.
of
B.
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SCORRI Report on Vietnamese Refugees
Sub-Committee
On 18 April the Commons
Immigration (SCORRI) published a report on particular reference to Hong Kong.
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some
11,
300
on "Race Relations and
Vietnamese refugees, with
Vietname se
There are at present
refugees in Hong Kong. Roughly 50% are in open centres into and out of which they
are able to move freely. The
The other 50% are in closed centres which
were set up for all newly arriving refugees in July 1982, in an
attempt to deter further would-be refugees from setting out from
Vietnam for Hong Kong. Refugees in closed centres are not permitted
to seek outside employment, and are confined in the centres.
After
in Western countries from 1979 to 1982,
is the
prospect of 8,000 to
a high rate of resettlement
"passion fatigue" has set in and there
13,000 refugees still being in Hong Kong in 1988 and possibly
indefinitely thereafter. The UK has
refugees in all
all but less than 500
years.
accepted 19,000 Indo-Chinese
from Hong Kong in the last three
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