ARZAEV
CONFIDENTIAL
HKD 243/12
FROM:
RECEV.
- 1 AUG 1988
DATE:
OFFICER
CC:
INL
PA
Mr McLaren
PS/Lord Glenarthur
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Private Secretary
A R Paul
Secretary DS 1988
Lily
Hong Kong Department
21 July 1988
PS/Mr Eggar
Mr Gillmore
Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mr Williams, UND
strongly endore this. & 21/7
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Amendments by My Mclwen and Lan Suenarths. Dari kong
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG: RESETTLEMENT IN THE UNITED
KINGDOM
22/7
Problem
1.
The Secretary of State has undertaken to put a revised
resettlement proposal to the Home Secretary. How should we reply? proceed?
Recommendation
2.
I recommend that the Secretary of State should send a further minute to the Home Secretary on the lines of the attached draft.
Background
3.
In discussion with the Secretary of State on 20 July, the Governor of Hong Kong said that a commitment to take an additional 1,000 Vietnamese refugees from the territory was very welcome. But he expressed concern that to spread the intake over 3 years, as we had proposed, would considerably dilute the impact of the offer and might well be perceived in Hong Kong as an inadequate response. He suggested that we should aim for an increased intake of 40 per month (as opposed to 30 per month) which we had proposed to the Home Secretary. The Secretary of State, with Lord Glenarthur's support,
undertook to see what could be done.
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