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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1989

OF

ILLEGAL

WAS

A

MANDATORY

IF THE RECEPTION

SINCE REPATRIATION

IMMIGRANTS INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE, IT WAS PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED COUNTRIES DID NOT OPEN THEIR DOORS TO THOSE BOAT PEOPLE, HE SAID.

MUST COMMUNITY STOP EXPORTING ITS

AT THE SAME TIME, HE SAID,

THE VIETNAMESE PUT PRESSURE ON PEOPLE.

THE

INTERNATIONAL

ΤΟ GOVERNMENT

BLOCKING THE ACCESS

IN THIS REGARD, CHINA COULD ALSO HELP BY TO HONG KONG OF THOSE VIETNAMESE WHO HAD LANDED IN CHINESE TERRITORY.

VIETNAMESE

HONG KONG SHOULD

STRANDED REFUGEES

MR CHEUNG SAID HAVING TAKEN THE FIRST STEP, THEN

WAYS FIND RESETTLED ELSEWHERE.

ΤΟ HAVE ALL

HERE

FRANCE.

"HMG MUST TAKE THE LEAD; SO MUST THE UNITED STATES AND

DO WITH THE PROBLEM WE ARE ALL AFTER ALL, THEY HAVE HAD MUCH TO FACING, HE SAID.

MR CHEUNG SAID THAT HONG KONG PROBLEMS OTHERS HAD CREATED,

HAD SUFFERED

FROM ENOUGH

THE

ENOUGH. BUT THERE THE PROBLEM

"OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PATIENT AND GENEROUS

MORE

WITHSTAND WE CAN MUST BE A LIMIT AS TO HOW MUCH WHICH IS BECOMING MORE GRIEVOUS," HE SAID.

JOINT

IT SAID IN THE

FOR RESPONSIBLE

THE OF MAINTAINING AND

IT STABILITY,

HAD A

HE SAID IF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MEANT WHAT

THAT

BE IT WOULD DECLARATION

KONG WITH ADMINISTRATION OF HONG

THE OBJECT PRESERVING ITS ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE NEXT MONTH.

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MUST EXERT ITS

THE INTERNATIONAL VIETNAM GOVERNMENT AND

OF IMPLEMENT MANDATORY REPATRIATION REFUGEES.

INFLUENCE ON BOTH THE

TO COMMUNITY

ACCEPT AND AND NON-REFUGEES,

RESETTLE

TO

HONG KONG THE WHO

"IN THE MEANTIME, BRITAIN MUST ALSO SHARE WITH EXPENSES ON LOOKING AFTER THE VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND BOAT PEOPLE ARE STILL HERE, HE ADDED.

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