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GOVERNMENT RUUSE FURU
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RESTRICTED
DRAFT SPEECH BY THE HON. MARTIN C.M. LEE, O.C. J.R.
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL -- WEDNESDAY, 5TH JUNE 1991
MOTION DEBATE ON VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
Sir, during this
debate today,
I Mempers
this
and that we nor the dormed.
Council to address the real issue at hand,
is
That issue is: the Constitutionally
Hong Kong Government has no power or authority to resolve the
problem of the Vietnamese Boat
Boat Feople.
Since the questions of first asylum and repatriation are
pertaining to
matters foreign
foreign affairs, only the U.K. Government in London has the power to make decisions on them.
обат
for Yet,
its Own
entirely self-serving reasons, the British Government has sought
internationally to place all the blame and responsibility for the problems relating to the vietnamese boat eople on Hong Kong. And shamefully and irresponsibly, the colonial Government here
has been all too happy to sacrifice our interests in favour of
the interests of the United Kingdom. Let not, however, This
Council be fooled. For we in this Council has a duty towards the people of Hong Kong not to let them receive the opprobrium of the
international community for decisions taken by the the U.K.
Government and followed by its colonial servants in Hong Kong.
The disingenuousness of the Hong kong Government today is
the more striking in that it is contradicting its own long-held