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Para 8, fifth sentence:
arriving after
a
refugee
accorded
future status
Hong Kong has proposed that those
date be screened,
and
those not
compulsorily
be repatriated; no one already Hong Kong would be
granted such status in returned: this is an important distinction.
a
copy
of
Para 8, last sentence: I suspect Hong Kong would argue that they have produced detailed proposals
is Donald, dated 9 February 1984, Haddon-Cave's letter to Donald, dated attached.
In para 9(iv) we might add that it should also ultimately
of other places
asylum to
enable
policies of humane deterrence.
terminate
their
own
(0)
In para 10(i), "Cambodia" refers.
I
an
not
sure
to whom the reference to
흐
(p)
I
am
not
(q)
In
(r)
3.
(a)
In
(b)
HMG
would need to be In para 10(ii)
sure that they
would "verified" (and if so, by whom or how). Surely they need rather to be assurances upon which
felt able to rely: I do not see how we could realistically verify on the them: and UNHCR would presumably decline to do so, grounds that those returned were not refugees.
para
11(i),
I wonder
whose
perception
this
is
certainly not that of some places of first asylum or the main resettlement countries.
11(vii),
numbers
(ix)
refer to
In the
or
imply very
of light
my
(viii) and Para large
of repatriations. comment (1) above I think this may be fallacious.
Appendix A:
the next sentence,
"identification"
I
sympathy
for
should read from my own in fact very illegal
para 3 first sentence
recall "identity". In experience at the time that by 1980 there was little public
newly arriving immigrants. In fact HKG were belaboured daily in the HK press (particulary the Chinese-speaking press) during the summer of 1980 for delaying to bow to the inevitable and the to end
anomalous absurd an
and government's overall immigration policy.
exception
I think that para 6(a) greatly exaggerates criticism of Hong Kong's repatriation policy.
Kong, Hong
only
criticism
heard
within
in
Almost
then
the domestic the and
interests
in
subsequently, has come from small and isolated groups,with
kind, whose affiliations of Taiwanese opposing repatriation were and are clear.
some
(c)
In
para omitted.
6(b)
I
would
think
that
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"generally"
should
be