WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1989
5
ARE
THOSE WHO "SUCH A POLICY, WHICH WOULD DENY ASSISTANCE EVEN TO
WOULD BE CONDEMNED GENUINE
FLEEING PERSECUTION, REFUGEES INTERNATIONALLY," HE SAID.
HANDLING OF
THIS
WHICH
PROBLEM,
MR
IT WOULD RISK DESTROYING THE REPUTATION AND THE GOODWILL
HUMANE HONG KONG HAD EARNED FOR ITS ASPREY WARNED.
A "HONG KONG MUST DEPEND ON THIS GOODWILL, NOT ONLY TO ACHIEVE
BUT ALSO IN ITS SOLUTION TO ITS PROBLEM OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE, WIDER POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS," HE ADDED.
INFLUX OF
SAID
AS TO THE POINT ABOUT THE STRAINS WHICH THE PRESENT BOAT PEOPLE WAS PUTTING ON OUR RESOURCES AND MANPOWER, MR ASPREY THE DEMANDS AND THE DIFFICULTIES WERE GREAT.
AGENCIES, HAVE
UNDERTAKE
NEW
AND
"BUT ALL, GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND VOLUNTARY
ΤΟ THEM RESPONDED MAGNIFICENTLY TO REQUESTS FOR INCREASING COMMITMENTS, HE SAID.
DEBATE PRODUCES A CLEAR MESSAGE
THE VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE SCREENED OUT BE REPATRIATED TO VIETNAM AND ALL THE OTHERS SHOULD BE RESETTLED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
THIS WAS THE OVERWHELMINGLY
TODAY'S LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
AS NON-REFUGEES MUST CONSIDERED AS REFUGEES
MESSAGE ARISING FROM OBVIOUS MOTION DEBATE ON THE
BOAT VIETNAMESE PEOPLE ISSUE, THE SENIOR MEMBER, THE HON ALLEN LEE, SAID IN WINDING UP THE DEBATE.
I
AT NO TIME HAS SUCH A CALL FROM THE IN TODAY'S DEBATE, BEEN SO LOUD AND CLEAR INTENSE," HE SAID.
COMMUNTIY, AS REFLECTED THE FEELING BEEN SQ
AND
OBVIOUSLY NO LONGER
REPLACED ENCOMPASS THE DUAL MANDATORY REPATRIATION OF
MR LEE SAID THE GENEVA AGREEMENT OF 1979 CATERED FOR THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF TODAY AND MUST THEREFORE BE BY A NEW AGREEMENT WHICH HAD TO NECESSARILY ELEMENTS OF RESETTLEMENT FOR REFUGEES AND THOSE WHO WERE NOT.
"NOTHING LESS IS GOING TO WORK,
PROBLEM
THE BOAT PEOPLE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, MR LEE SAID.
HE SAID.
HAD NOW CAUSED TREMENDOUS
ANXIETY
A VERY DIFFICULT POSITION: THE ADMINISTRATION WAS PLACED IN
OWN, IT WHILE IT HAD INHERITED THE PROBLEM THROUGH NO FAULT OF ITS
UNFAIRLY AT TIMES, HAD BEEN SUBJECT TO CONTINUOUS CRITICISM, RATHER THAT IT HAD NOT BEEN EFFECTIVE IN TACKLING THE ISSUE.
"TO BE