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Quaker Peace & Service

A department of London Yearly Meeting and of Ireland Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Telephone 01-387 3601 Telegrams Enhearten London NW1

10th September 1985

A C Galsworthy Esq

Head. Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Downing Street

London SW1

Dear Mr Galsworthy

Chairman

Donald H. D. Southall

Treasurer

John Whatley

General Secretary Andrew C. Clark

FIKK 243%.

18 SEP 1985

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On behalf of Quaker Peace and Service I write to express our concern about the "Closed Camp" policy towards Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong, and the effects of this policy.

According to a report received from the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, dated 20 June 1985, 159,978 were in the camps awaiting resettlement, in inhumane conditions.

We wonder therefore whether Her Majesty's Government would give sympathetic consideration to family reunion cases as well as long-stayers at the camp by admitting a higher number of these refugees to the UK.

I should very much appreciate your comments.

Yours sincerely

Claude Juchin Waving

N Ramamurthy

Af Asia Secretary

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