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VI ETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG: RESETTLEMENT
The Foreign Secretary has seen your letter of
5 December recording the Prime Minister's preliminary
views on the proposal that we should take an additional
1,000 Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong over the
The Prime Minister said she would like
next 2 years.
to consider this issue in parallel with that of
citizenship for investors from Hong Kong, and reach
decisions on both at the same time.
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The Prime Minister will now have seen the
Home Secretary's minute of 2 December and the Foreign
Secretary's minute of 6 December about what we are doing
to help Hong Kong businessmen investing in this country
to settle here and eventually acquire citizenship.
Foreign Secretary believes that the greater flexibility
which the Home Secretary is prepared to show in
individual cases, and the efforts we are making to
The