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по decision on whether or
have asked the Governor to
3. The Home Office formula has been sent to Hong Kong with the
caveat that FCO Ministers have t ak en
not to accept it. On this basis we put it to EXCO on 27 August with the request that EXCO now respond to recommendation 5(iv) (which proposes
5(iv) (which proposes that Hong Kong accept for settlement a proportion of the ethnic Chinese refugees from open camps). We have underlined that the more forthcoming EXCO' 8 response to 5(iv), the stronger will be our hand for pressing the Home Office in future to take a reasonable number of refugees under 5(iii).
4.
Responses to other recommendations for which the FCO 18
(2, responsible
3, 5(i) and
are and (ii) and 6)
now agreed with Hong Kong and, at official level, within the FCO. I submit them
for Mr Luce's consideration.
5.
If EXCO accept the Home Office formula for 5(iii) produce a reasonable (probably matching) formula for 5(iv) HO hope to submit a consolidated set of FCO inputs to the White
Paper, as well as a response to the Home Office formula,
formula, for
consideration by Ministers over the weekend, beginning 30 August. If at all possible, HMG's reply as a whole to SCORRI should be agreed by 6 September in order to allow for publication an September (when Mr Waddington returns from the US): this then just allow time
resettlement countries to it before the UNHCR Executive Committee meeting on 7 October
allow time for major
when we
intend to mount a major exercise to persuade them to t
more refugees in the light of our own response.
B. LEGCO ELECTIONS
6.
seats
64 candidates have been nominated for the 24 LE
for which elections will be held on 26 Septem
(the nomination period closed on 20 August). The Govern
has reported that with
political colour.
f ew
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exceptions they have no obvio
pleased with the
nominations and with the considerable public
interest in the elections which has built up.
numbe
and med