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LEGCO QUESTION NO. 16
Asked oy : Hon Martin Barrow, CBE, JP
Date of sitting: 24.2.93
Replied by : S for S
Question:
Does the
Vietnamese volunteer
Government accept that an improvement in the to economy would encourage Vietnamese migrants
return and if so, will the Government inform this Council what specific initiatives they are taking, directly and through Her Majesty's Government, to encourage the new United States Administration to lift their trade embargo against Vietnam?
Reply :
Mr Deputy President,
Government does accept that an improvement
The
in the
Vietnamese economy would
encourage
Vietnamese
migrants to volunteer to return. Our position on the
American trade embargo against vietnam is a matter of
public record and is well known to the United States
Nevertheless, whenever the opportunity
arises we and her Majesty's Government remind them of it.
Government.
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