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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
K J Woodhouse Esq
Security Branch
Government Secretariat
HONG KONG
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Telephone 01-
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HKK 243/8
RECEIVER AN Ge
- 7 NOV 1986
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EGISTRY
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Your reference
Dur reference
HKK 243/8
Date
6 November 1986
44
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES:
1.
INVOLUNTARY REPATRIATION
When we began to re-examine earlier this year the question of possible alternatives to resettlement, Christian Adams (He ad of SEAD) commissioned our Research Department to prepare a paper on involuntary repatriation.
The paper is intended to be as far as possible purely factual, to cover earlier proposed and actual repatriations and their political" palatability, the pros of repatriation in the present case, and related issues such as the economic migrant question and Hong Kong's own experience of repatriation to China.
2.
pros and cons
I attach for your comments (by 20 November if possible please) a copy of a revised Research Department draft, which has been agreed within FCO and is now being sent to posts for their comments.
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CE Leeks
relevant Overseas
Hong Kong Department
cc.
Mr Whitehead SSEAS, RD
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