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numbers from those camps.
The
provide a
memorandum on
difficulty in agreeing
Home Office were also
We had
asked to
considerable
Vietnamese refugees.
with the Home Office the terms on which we dealt with question (b)
above. The Home Office were reluctant to give too much currency to
the view that, in order to break the log jam on resettlement from
Hong Kong, we needed to take the lead.
the other hand, all the
international evidence indicates that this view is correct.
3.
On
response,
in
We shall now need to produce a considered
conjunction with the Home Office whose ultimate responsibility it is
to coordinate the Government response.
The normal form for this
would be a Home Office White Paper,
which would include an FCO
contribution on matters for which we are responsible. We shall
discuss this with Home Office officials next week. A meeting
between Mr Luce and Mr Waddington will probably be necessary give
the areas of potential difference between ourselves and the Home
Office, particularly concerning the recommendation that Britain's
family reunion criteria should be relaxed for Vietnamese refugees in
Hong Kong, to allow a further intake from the
4.
camps there.
Because agreement on a White Paper may take considerable time,
may need to consider the possibility of using an inspired
Parliamentary Question to give a preliminary reply on points in the
Report of particular interest to
we
us.
19 April 1985
деталий
A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
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