GS1BAQ
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Para 3(i) add to Last
sentence after "14500": "Vietnamese
refugees
and decided in February 1986 to accept a further 250 at a rate of 20
per month".
Para 3(ii) in line 3, delete "refugee",
in line 4, add
add after "cases": ", of which only 14 have
been from Hong Kong since 1979 out of 110,000 refugees who have
passed through the territory",
in Line 10, "escapees" should read "escapers".
between "The authorities
Para 6 add at end of sentence
in South
China and Macao": ", but Hong Kong has not turned away any boats
which wish to load".
Revise sentence starting "This was coupled with "to begin:
told are
on arrival of the policy, and of the slim
resettlement prospects and are offered the option of
"Refugees
Para 12 revise begining thus: "It is the
the view of Hong Kong that
repatriation should be introduced for future arrivals only, and from a given date which should be well publicised in advance: this could
help to reduce the number which had to be returned,
fact and the
that some had been returned would in turn reduce the number coming
thereafter. However, if involuntary repatriation were extended to
all current asylum-seekers, there would undoubtedly be much greater
difficulties:
(i)
the current
Appendix A para 6(a) replace "including
"including ethnic Chinese inhabitants
of" by "in",
insert "strong" between "the" and "general",
Para
"in replace
6(c)
effectively".
Low-profile
Para 7 figure in line 2 should be 110,000.
manner"
with "swiftly
and
are month first sentence "and 20 per at end of
Para 8 add
absorbed
in
a
new
programme
to
resettle
250 ethnic
now being
Chinese
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