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HONG KONG: VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
1.
At the OD(K) meeting on 4 October the Sub-committee
concluded that my predecessor should pursue with you the
outstanding funding questions related to the problem of
Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong.
In your letter of 9 August, you indicated that you
were content with our proposals for expenditure of
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£4.5 million on emergency accommodation; £5 million on a
Regional Processing Centre for Refugees; and £1.3 million
on the repatriation of non-volunteers to Vietnam.
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The £4.5 million for emergency accommodation has been
transferred to the Hong Kong Government and disbursed.
It now seems unlikely that the Regional Processing Centre
will materialise on the scale originally envisaged, if at
all.
If it does, it will be on a much reduced scale and
our contribution is unlikely to be more than £2 million
in this financial year. We will revert when the position
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