for the Environment and others how the problems in this area can be
avoided.
We shall now enter into immediate consultations with the other
resettlement Governments and United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees. We shall make clear that there must be a genuine
international effort. We shall look to other governments to state
clearly their readiness to match what we intend to do by accepting substantial additional numbers of Vietnamese refugees from Hong
Kong. We hope that they will respond generously as they have done in the past. Depending on the response that we receive, and a
solution to the problem of pressure on housing resources in certain
areas of the United Kingdom, we shall be ready to go ahead with our
new plans.