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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989
SYMPATHISE WITH GRANT THE RIGHT
THE
OF
"I HAVE SAID THAT I FULLY UNDERSTAND AND WIDESPREAD HOPE IN HONG KONG THAT BRITAIN WOULD ABODE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO ALL HONG KONG BRITISH NATIONALS.
SUCH A
IT "I HAVE ALSO SAID THAT, IN MY VIEW,
MOVE, IF
WERE EFFECT ON CONFIDENCE
IN HONG POSSIBLE, WOULD HAVE A VERY POSITIVE
WOULD BE SMALL," KONG, AND THAT THE NUMBER WHO WOULD ACTUALLY LEAVE HE SAID.
HONG
THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT IN ORDER TO HAVE THE EFFECT
GROWTH KONG'S ECONOMIC
AND WAS WANTED ON MAINTAINING STABILITY. THE SCHEME ON THE RIGHT OF ABODE ISSUE WOULD NEED TO THREE IMPORTANT POINTS.
THAT
SOCIAL COVER
WILL NEED то ENSURE THE UK WITHOUT
"IT WILL NEED TO BE AS GENEROUS AS POSSIBLE; IT MINIMISE DIVISIVENESS, SO FAR AS POSSIBLE; AND IT WILL NEED TO THAT THOSE COVERED CAN ACQUIRE THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HAVING TO LEAVE HONG KONG," HE SAID.
HAD SAID THAT THE GOVERNOR NOTED THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN IT DID NOT BELIEVE IT WAS POSSIBLE TO GRANT BRITAIN TO ALL HONG KONG BRITISH NATIONALS BUT HAD INSTEAD PROMISED SCHEME UNDER WHICH THE RIGHT OF ABODE WOULD BE GRANTED TO SOME IN HONG KONG IN A WAY DESIGNED TERRITORY.
то ENCOURAGE
THEM
TO STAY
A
IN
PEOPLE THE
ANNOUNCED,
"I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT THE SCHEME, WHEN IT IS HELP TO PROVIDE GREATER CONFIDENCE AND STABILITY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
RIGHT TO SAY THAT WE WANT
SOMETHING
"MEANWHILE IT CANNOT BE
A SCHEME EVERYTHING OR NOTHING: BETTER THAN NO SCHEME AT ALL," HE SAID.
THAT PROVIDES
WILL
EITHER
MUST
BE
RESETTLEMENT, REPATRIATION OF VIETNAMESE THE OBJECTIVE
SATISFACTORY
THE GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO PUT IN PLACE ARRANGEMENTS FOR RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND REPATRIATION
VIETNAMESE THOSE
WHO ARE SCREENED OUT AS GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
·OF
NON-REFUGEES,
THE
THE
TO MEANTIME, FELLOW HUMAN
IN SIR DAVID CALLED UPON HONG KONG PEOPLE. HAVE PATIENCE, AND TO REMEMBER THAT THE VIETNAMESE WERE BEINGS.
IS LIKE TO "MANY HONG KONG FAMILIES, AFTER ALL, KNOW WHAT IT
THEMSELVES UPROOT
FROM THEIR HOMES AND SEEK A BETTER FUTURE ELSEWHERE, HE SAID.
SIR DAVID SAID
GOVERNMENT HAD
HE
REMAINED
ADOPTED
WAS
THE RIGHT ONE. AND
CONVINCED THAT THE POLICY THE THAT IT WOULD
EVENTUALLY BEAR FRUIT.
/"AT THE