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02 DEC 1985
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Lady Young's meeting with M. Ross, 4 Dec
SUBJECT:
Vietnamese refugees
Sent to WED
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In their
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The Hong Kong Govt.
Sir A. Acland.
grateful for your kind letter to
are in touch
with the French Consulate General about individua
Vietnamese refugee cases which France may be able
consider accepting.
Background
Hong Kong's
refugee
The PUS raised the subject of/Vietnamese
problem with M. Ross at their meeting on 30 Oct.
He undertook to provide details of refugees in the
XRX camps in Hong Kong who have close family
connections in France, to enable the French to
consider whether they could be accepted for resetti
ment. The Hong Kong Govt. have informed us at tha
about 70 of the refugees have close family ties in
France, and 44 speak French. It is not yet clear to what extent these 2 categories overlap, but the
HKG are obtaining further details from UNHCR, which
they will then pass to the French Consulate-General
in Hong Kong. The PUS wrote to