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VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG: RESETTLEMENT
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1. The Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary wrote
to Mr Powell on 17 October about the outcome of the
second round of talks with the Vietnamese authorities on
the return of Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong. We
have taken the first important step towards achieving our
objective of the return of all boat people who do not
qualify to be treated as political refugees.
The
beginning of the repatriation exercise will reinforce the
deterrent effect of our new policies and reduce further
the rate of illegal departures for Hong Kong. The latest
very few new arrivals : a much figures/already show hert
show since mid-September ein
He revigatually ceased
greater reduction than the
normal seasonal decline at be hope, therefore, that the problem is finite.
this time of year. There can There are now some 25,000 boat people in Hong Kong.
2.
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Of those 9,500 arrived after the introduction of
No sereening decisions have yet been screening on 16 June. mit
hitial reening results indicate,
annanced but
that very few, if any, will qualify to be treated as