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agencies have identified under
existing
SCORRI criteria; We
might in addition consider as part of our SCORRI commitment accepting a certain number of hard to resettle cases, eg the UK refusal cases of 1980/81; Mr Rawsthorne also explained the "10 or more" plan which enabled UK to accept a few refugees
few refugees under a UNHCR scheme, but not only from Vietnam.
5. We concluded that the best approach now,
if we wished to take the matter any further before Mr Waddington's visit to Hong Kong at the end of September,
would be
for our Secretary of State to write to the Home Secretary at the start of September, when Home Office Ministers return to the office, to suggest an interim proposal on further resettlement pending our pursuit of the long-term strategy we had outlined.
CE Leeks
12 August 1986
Hong Kong Department
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