REGISTRY
- 8 DEC 1986
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Leglo speech by Secretary for Secuirty
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comprehensive staff training programme.
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This possibility
has in fact been under consideration for more than five
years. The main difficulty. is to find a suitable site.
The latest position is that we are considering the
possibility of developing the Erskine Camp in Saikung
into a residential training school. We shall know in the
latter part of 1987 whether we can proceed with an
Immigration Training school there. Meanwhile we shall
continue to press for these much needed training facilities.
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Vietnamese Refugees
11.
I would now like to turn to the problem of
Vietnamese refugees which was raised by my honourable
colleagues, Mr. Peter C. Wong, Dr. HO Kam-fai, Mr. Jackie Chan
and Mrs. Rita Fan.
12.
I am most grateful for the continuing interest
shown by Members of this Council in helping to find solutions
to the intractable problem of Vietnamese refugees in Hong
Kong. I can assure Honourable Members that the Administration
is equally concerned about this issue and its effect on Hong
Kong. We are well aware of the contradiction between our
policy on Vietnamese refugees and our very necessary policy
(given our acute population pressures) towards illegal
immigrants from China. But, as Mr. Wong pointed out, the
principles that govern our society are humanitarian, and until
such times as we can be satisfied about the treatment of any
who are sent back to Vietnam, we must continue to grant them
asylum here.
13.
But while we as a place of first asylum in
accordance with the international convention continue to
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