Rt. Hon. John Major P.M.,
10 Downing Street, Westminster SW1
HILD OTS/1
JUNE 4 CHINA SUPPORT GROUP
PO Box 190
London, WC1X 9RL
8 March 1992
Mr Woodrow
tel. to the Al
a 25/3
Dear Prime Minister,
ZB
During your visit to China last year and, more recently, when you met Li Peng in New York, you expressed
concern about human rights in China. May we please put to you a request which relates to human rights in China and which
falls within your own competence to take action.
We also
Since the massacre in Beijing in June 1989, a small number of Chinese refugees have escaped to Hong Kong. We
understand that in 1989 several of the Consuls-General based
in Hong Kong met and agreed a quota of Chinese refugees whom their country would accept for resettlement.
understand that this quota has now been exhausted, and that
the only country which still accepts Chinese refugees for re-
settlement is the U.S.A. However, with no other country accepting such refugees, it appears that the Americans are becoming increasingly unwilling to accept these persons.
Our request is that you instruct the Hong Kong
Government, or other representatives of the UK government in Hong Kong, to convene the Consuls-General again to
to seek
agreement on further quota of Chinese refugees for re-
settlement. We accept this may not be easy given the problems
over re-settlement of the Vietnamese refugees. However, the scale of the Chinese refugee problem is altogether different.
We believe that, under present conditions, a global quota of
fifty Chinese refugees per year for the next five years would
be unlikely to be filled.
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