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FINTERVIEW WITH ICMUTHY KENTUN, #MINISTER OF STATE =by Elizabeth Wright (5)
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Timothy Kenton, Minister of State Commonwealth Uffice, with special responsibility for an the Foreign and Fast As18, has just returned from a ten-day visit to the Far East, He visited Hong Kong IndonesLA
Singapore and 3 Where he attended a British diplomats' conterence, Elizabeth Wright of the BBC ́s Far East
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refugees in Hong Kong, the importance of truly democratic elections in the Phalappanes and the Kritish view of the situatıAN in tast Limor.
her report,
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Whilst Mr. Kenton was an Hong Kong he visited Vietnamese
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the close. Bowring lamp and the transit camp at Kat
Tak,
and was full of praise for the way they were run, poantang out the Faculables they provided For vocational training and training an English and other lenguages, whose he was there, however the SaVe the Children Fund 15surd a very critical report on the whole concept ot the closed camps. When asked shout the discrepancy between has VIAMS and those of the Save the Children Fund, Mr. Kenton said that
ome accepted the necessitu of the closed camps 17 Hong Kong then one had to agree that they were well pun, preparing the inmates for a lite 1. P another country,
Renton saw the closed camps as
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and as A (@eans of discouraging the inflow of Vietnamese retugees a He pointed out that the Hong Kong Government as faced with the illogical situation of having to return to China Chinese illegal Immigrants who have relatives an Hong Kong whilst at the same time having to accept Vietnamese refugees uno have no relatives there at
all.
When asked about the future numbers of Vietnamese refugees which Britain woud de prepared to accept, the Minister saud that it was A