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Draft speech by Secretary for security
on Immigration Ordinance on/2.12.8
SECRETARY FOR SECURITY:
Sir,
I would like to thank my two hon. Friends
for their support for this motion, I too very much regret
its necessity.
Sir, I have fully taken the points that both
hon. Members have made and I can assure Members all hon.
Members that the efforts of the Hong Kong Government to
pursue solutions to the problems of refugees will not,
in any way, diminish. Our solutions are, of course,
resettlement in the short term and screening repatriation
of new arrivals in the long term, provided we can be
satisfied they will not be treated inhumanely on return.
Sir, I would like to take up my hon. Friend
Mr. Hui's two points about education and work in the
closed camps.
For many years now, we have in fact been
considering with the UNHCR and the voluntary agencies
concerned ways of improving the education of the Vietnamese
refugees children in the closed centres. Improvements
have in our view at any rate been introduced steadily
throughout the years as far as the education within the
camps is concerned. What we are now looking at is a
formal proposal from the UNHCR that the Vietnamese refugees
children in the closed centres should be educated in Hong
Kong schools outside the centres. On the face of it, this is
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