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Psi Lord Glerathu Psimr Eggar
Mr Mchara Mr Gillmore
SEAD
Ms Stakes
WT.
UND
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Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong
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1. Thank you for your minute of 15 March, setting out your proposals to make up the shortfall in the list of 468 Vietnamese refugees whom we have agreed to take from Hong Kong. I appreciate of your readiness to accept that these vacancies should be filled. If we had not done so, this would have caused great concern in Hong Kong, and would have damaged our efforts to persuade others to play their part in tackling the problem. I am content that the shortfall should be made up on the basis which you
propose.
2. Your minute also addresses the question of the rate of resettlement in this country and the possible extension of our present commitment. You will know that Simon Glenarthur called on Tim Renton on 29 March to discuss these points. He did so against the background of the serious deterioration of the position in Hong Kong, which the Governor of Hong Kong described to you during his visit to London last week.
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Simon Glenarthur put to Tim Renton a package of ideas for a modest but credible additional resettlement commitment. We are all agreed that resettlement will not in itself solve the problem. We are pursuing
energetically with other governments the long-term
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