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MR LUCE
pa 243/5
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DEPARTMENT:
TO:
SIR JOHN WELLS MP
HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SWIA OAA
SUBJECT:
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HKK 243/5
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Thank you for your letter of 5 June enclosing a letter.
form your constituent, Mr Anthony Moran of 15 Kenward
Road, Poplar Grove. Maidstone about the problem of the
Vietnamese refugees who are at present in Hong Kong
awaiting resettlement.
At present
there are about 11,000 Vietnamese refugees in
They continue to arrive from Vietnam,
though at a much slower rate than when
this predicament.
the flow first
started in the 1970s. 2.230 arrived in 1984. Since 1975
a total of over 100,000 boat people have travelled to
None have been turned away. All have been
Hong Kong.
given temporary asylum by the Hong Kong authorities,
despite the difficulties of accommodating them
them in such
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small, densely populated territory.
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