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FROM: P J WESTMACOTT DATE: 11 September 1986
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Dr Wilson
Mr Adams, SEAD Mr Williams, UND
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: RESETTLEMENT IN THE UK
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Mr Renton was grateful for your submission of 8 September.
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He has two difficulties with your draft minute to the Home Secretary. First, he felt it was unnecessarily long, given that Home Office Ministers are well aware of the background to the Vietnamese refugee problem in Hong Kong. Secondly, if we accept as your draft does, but only in the last paragraph that the Home Secretary will not take a decision on a new offtake until Mr Waddington has reported back after his visit to Hong Kong, Mr Renton thinks this is the wrong kind of minute to send to the Home Office at this stage. He would prefer a shorter minute which begins by drawing attention to the likely coincidence of the filling of this year's quota with
Mr Waddington's visit, which may well put Mr Waddington under
The minute should then some pressure while he is in Hong Kong. explicitly accept that the Home Secretary will wish to await Mr Waddington's report before deciding on a new programme, but go on to argue in favour of Mr Waddington being able to refer in Hong Kong to a run-on of the existing quota in order to avoid a hiatus. The minute might end with a concise restatement of the reasons why we hope that, on Mr Waddington's return, the Home Secretary will quickly agree to a new annual offtake programme. 3. Since time is short, I am sure Mr Renton will not mind if you decide to put a revised draft direct to the
Private Secretary, with a side copy for Mr Renton's weekend box.
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