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HKD 243/12
FROM: A R Paul
Hong Kong Department
DATE: 30 December 1988
cc: PS/Lord Glenarthur
Private Secretary
PS/Mr Eggar
Mr Gillmore
Mr McLaren
SEAD
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG: LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER
FROM OXFAM HONG KONG
A
Problem
1.
A letter to the Prime Minister from Mr Chris Bale of Oxfam Hong
Kong calling for an increase in the UK's quota of refugees resettled from Hong Kong to a rate of 60 per month.
B
Recommendation
I recommend that the Prime Minister is advised to reply along
the lines of the attached draft. I submit a short covering Private
Secretary's letter.
2.
Background
The draft follows closely the line in the letter to Miss Lydia Dunn, which the Prime Minister has now approved, including the
detail about the rate of resettlement envisaged.
3.
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