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5.

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.

6.

SCORRI Report on Vietnamese Refugees

Sub-Committee

On 18 April the Commons

Immigration (SCORRI) published a report on particular reference to Hong Kong.

7.

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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