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Action Taken

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Problem

1.

How should

we respond to the Home Secretary's

minute of 12 November, in which he sets out the Home Office

view that Ministers should not agree to a further

commitment to UK resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in

Hong Kong except as part of an international initiative to

solve the Vietnamese refugee problem; and proposes that Mr Renton and Mr Waddington meet to discuss this further?

Recommendation

2.

the

to

I recommend that the Secretary of State write

Home Secretary on the lines of the attached draft,

agreeing that Mr Renton and Mr Waddington should meet soon.

SEAD and UND concur.

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3.

Background and Argument

The Secretary of State saw Mr Hum's submission of

8 July which described the background and recommended that

we seek to persuade the Home Office to agree

to a further

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