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PS/ Lord Glenarthur Psi mr Eggar
Mr McLaren Mr Gillmore
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1.
Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong
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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.
3.
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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