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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