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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1988

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GOVERNOR CONCERNED ABOUT GROWING VR PROBLEM

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TODAY WILSON,

{WEDNESDAY) EXPRESSED

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID CONCERN ABOUT THE GROWING VIETNAMESE REFUGEE PROBLEM FACING HONG KONG.

"INCREASED ARRIVALS OVER

HAVE

THE LAST TWO YEARS AND

IN RESULTED

HONG KONG'S

DWINDLING REFUGER

RESETTLEMENT PROSPECTS POPULATION RISING SIGNIFICANTLY IN 1979," HE SAID.

1987 FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE

MA WAN AND OF OVERCROWDING IN

SIR DAVID, WHO WAS VISITING CLOSED CENTRES AT CHI

PROBLEM CONCERN THE HEI LING CHAU, NOTED WITH THESE CENTRES, PARTICULARLY IN HEI LING CHAU.

SHORT AND LONG

HE WAS BRIEFED ON MEASURES BEING TAKEN IN THE TERM TO ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM, INCLUDING THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION A FOURTH CLOSED CENTRE.

OF

THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT THEIR EFFORTS ΤΟ MITIGATE THE

PRAISED MEANWHILE, HE AND ALL OTHER AGENCIES INVOLVED FOR EFFECTS OF THE OVERCROWDING AS FAR AS POSSIBLE.

THE INTERNATIONAL WITH THE MAINTENANCE AND

THE GOVERNOR SAID HONG KONG WAS GRATEFUL TO COMMUNITY FOR ITS CONTINUING ASSISTANCE RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES IN HONG KONG THROUGH THE GOOD OFFICES OF UNHCR AND THE VOLUNTARY AGENCIES IT SUPPORTS.

COMMUNITY

AT THE

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ΤΟ

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SAME TIME "I URGE THE INTERNATIONAL INCREASE THEIR EFFORTS TO FIND A LASTING SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM ÁS WHOLE THROUGH THE CREATION OF ACCEPTABLE CONDITIONS FOR THE RETURN VIETNAM OF THOSE WHO LEAVE FOR ECONOMIC AND NOT POLITICAL REASONS, SAID.

LADY WA-SHEK,

WILSON,

AND

HIS VISIT BY SIR DAVID WAS ACCOMPANIED DURING

MR CHAN SERVICES, CORRECTIONAL COMMISSIONER FOR PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR NIGEL FRENCH.

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