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C D Powell, Esq
10 Downing Street
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Reference
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TEL. NO:
RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
Your Reference
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Thank you for your letter of 21 December about
Mr Eggar's speech in the adjournment debate on Vietnamese
boat people.
Mr Eggar duly made the statement this morning in the
terms agreed by the Prime Minister. We are thus now in
a position to let you have a draft reply to the letter
which Miss Lydia Dunn wrote to the Prime Minister and to
other Members of Parliament on 17 November on behalf of
all the members of the Executive and Legislative Councils
in Hong Kong.
The enclosed draft is largely self-explanatory.
On the central issue of resettlement it follows the line
of Mr Eggar's statement, and encloses the full text of
the relevant passage.