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Thank you for your letter of 10 June.
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4/7.
May I say how much I enjoyed taking part in the IRAC
IRAC are to be congratulated on
Seminar on First Asylum.
I
organising a very well run and successful occasion.
was struck by the degree of realism that the participants
in the seminar showed in recognising the limits to what
countries of first asylum and countries of resettlement
(that they face. could do faced with the enormous human problem of
bout
Thousands of Vietnamese continuing to leave their
homeland in search of a better life 13 years after the
end of the war, during which time the Vietnamese
Government has singularly failed in its responsibilities
towards the well-being of its people.
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You will by now have received the reply from Mrs
Thatcher's Private Secretary to your telegram to her.
that This reply explains the policy recently introduced the Hong Kong Government in order to maintain the principle
of first asylum for genuine refugees while deterring in