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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987
ALL
AGREED
THAT
ONE
IS
TO
ARE "AND WE
THE ONLY VIABLE
ARE GENUINE REFUGEES, REPATRIATE ALL WHO CANNOT ESTABLISH THAT THEY PROVIDED WE CAN BE SATISFIED THEY WILL NOT BE TREATED INHUMANELY.
"IN THIS CONTEXT WE ARE ONLY TOO CONSCIOUS OF THE WAY TO TREAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA.
F
WE HAVE
OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAJESTY'S
HOME
QUOTING AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE MINISTER OF STATE OFFICE WHICH STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF CONCERTED ACTION TO FIND A DURABLE SOLUTION, MR JEAFFRESON SAID: "HER GOVERNMENT IS DOING ALL IT CAN TO HELP HONG KONG IN THIS RESPECT".
HE REITERATED THAT THE SEARCH FOR A DURABLE SOLUTION A SLOW AND DIFFICULT PROCESS.
WOULD BE
"GIVEN THAT, AS A PLACE OF
ACCEPT ALL WHO ARRIVE ILLEGALLY FROM VIETNAM,
REMIND LONDON
OF
THE
CONSIDERABLE
FIRST ASYLUM, HONG KONG HAS TO WE ARE CONTINUING TO IN
AT THE HONG KONG CONCERN
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES RESETTLED DIFFICULTIES WE ARE HAVING IN GETTING
OF THIS COUNCIL AND IN THE AND OF THE WIDE SUPPORT AMONG MEMBERS
SHORT-TERM COMMUNITY BOTH FOR A GREATER DEGREE OF RESETTLEMENT IN THE AND FOR A LONG-TERM SOLUTION INVOLVING REPATRIATION OF THOSE WHO NOT BE RESETTLED BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN FACT REFUGEES," HE ADDED.
CAN
HOUSING STRATEGY ENSURES ADEQUATE SUPPLY AT AFFORDABLE COST
*
THE
AT
FROM NOT DEPART STRATEGY DOES TERM THE LONG
HOUSING EXISTING POLICY WHICH AIMS TO ENSURE A SUPPLY OF ADEQUATE HOUSING
CHIEF SECRETARY, AN AFFORDABLE PRICE OR RENT FOR ALL HOUSEHOLDS, THE THE HON DAVID FORD, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
AND REINFORCED WITH ADEQUATE THEIR
MR FORD SAID THAT RATHER THE STRATEGY EXTENDED THIS POLICY SO THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE PROVIDED NOT ONLY HOUSING, BUT ALSO WITH A CHOICE OF EITHER RENTING OR PURCHASING HOME, MR FORD ADDED.
USE THAT THE BEST HE SAID IT AIMED TO ENSURE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR RESOURCES AND PROGRESSIVELY TO STANDARD OF THE OLDER HOUSING STOCK.
WAS MADE OF UPGRADE THE
ON THE
TERM HOUSING LONG WINDING UP THE ADJOURNMENT DEBATE
SO MUCH PUBLIC WITH WAS GRATEFUL STRATEGY,
SAID HE MR FORD
GROUPS DISCUSSIONS, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT BOARDS, INTEREST AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHO HAD SHOWN SO MUCH INTEREST AND TO THE MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL WHO HAD HELPED TO MANY POINTS MADE IN PUBLIC DEBATE OF THE STRATEGY.
IN THE SCHEME CRYSTALLISE THE
/HE NOTED