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minute attached.
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However
the Home Secretary is likely to chip away
cast our
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any proposal we make, and I suggest that we should
initial bid higher leaving ourselves some room to fall back.
consider in any case that the 500 a year proposal is a realistic one
from the point of view of effect on other countries.
5.
I should like to draw attention to on e other point. In the
minute I have committed the Secretary of State to urging the Hong
Kong Government to take some of the Chinese in the open centres in
the context of a satisfactory solution on off take. I think that
this will help with the Home Secretary (and incidentally SCORRI).
But while I think in the right circumstances we should put pressure
on the Hong Kong Government, we should be clear now that we cannot
in
be certain that they will agree to do as proposed. I see no point
consulting them about this now since they would have no option
brought in to the equation. We
cannot avoid considering it, in the light of SCORRI's recommendation
on the subject.
but to resist this element being
6.
I have discussed this in draft with Dr Wilson, who agrees.
16 May 1985
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A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
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