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Office of Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils 行政立法兩局議員辦事處
Ref: MA/7
Mr Tim Eggar MP
House of Commons
LONDON SWLA OAA
UK
Dear Mr Eggar,
30 September 1987
NKS
the th
Vietnamese Refugees
in arriving
We note
The Senior Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, the Hon Lydia Dunn, wrote to you on 14 January 1987 requesting you to do what you could to urge HMG to renew its initiative to take in Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong for resettlement and to begin negotiations with the Vietnamese Government with a view to repatriating boat
Hong Kong who people
are not genuine refugees. I am now writing as Convener of the Legislative Council's Ad Hoc Group on
on Vietnamese Refugees to express in our appreciation for the help that MPs have given us
this subject.
from the Home approaching HMG on Secretary's statement on 8 May that the UK will now accept 468 refugees from Hong Kong
the coming over
years, and, while we had hoped that
had hoped that this figure might have been higher and still hope that it will not mark the limit of
future commitment,
that without the UK's
certain that the assistance of so many MPS we might not even have seen We are this contribution towards relieving our problems.
the also pleased
seeking to put to United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the main
countries a case
for a common approach
to durable solution
the refugee problem, and
to Ambassador
Hanoi will British
discuss
resettlement
towards that the
a
to
note
we are
is that HMG
repatriation with Vietnamese officials.
Meanwhile,
two
seem
to
difficulties remain and our there are at be getting worse:
present 9166 refugees our camps, compared with 8376 at the same time last year; and only 1729 refugees have been resettled overseas so far this
year, year, compared
3258 with
in the same
period
last
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