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-6 SEP 1988
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Mr McLaren
Minute
Private Secretary
CONFIDENTIAL
FROM:
DATE:
- SEP 1988 CC:
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(124 Secretory of State
Rolya
Hong Kong Department
1 September 1988 PS/Lord Glenarthur
PS/Mr Patten
PS/Mr Eggar
PS/PUS
Mr Fifoot, Legal Advisers
Mr Gillmore
Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mr Williams, UND
Mr Graham-Harrison, ODA
Mr Machin, ODA
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG
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1.
Please refer to Mr Perce's minute of 30 August, recording questions from the Secretary of State about my submission of 25 August. I shall take them in turn.
Operation of a Repatriation Programme
2.
Consideration of the operation of a possible repatriation programme is at a very early stage. However some months ago the governments of the main resettlement countries commissioned preliminary work from UNHCR, which took the form of the attached "conceptual paper". The UNHCR have in mind a programme of reintegration assistance which would be strictly limited in scope, along the following lines:
aid would be non-developmental and humanitarian in character in principle it would not directly benefit the Vietnamese
Government
it should be of such a nature as not to encourage departures or re-departures.
CONFIDENTIAL