THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1988
HANOI TAKES NOTE OF HK'S NEW POLICY
NOTE THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT HAS TAKEN
OF THE DETAILS OF KONG'S NEW POLICY ON VIETNAMESE BOAT
THE PEOPLE,
BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO HANOI, MR EMRYS DAVIES, SAID TODAY THURSDAY).
HONG
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS ON ARRIVAL AT THE AIRPORT, VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES HAD REACTED CAUTIOUSLY.
HE SAID THE
ATTITUDE. WHICH I THINK
WHICH SEPTEMBER,
WAS THAT
"THEY HAVE EXPLAINED AGAIN THEIR SPOKE ABOUT WHEN I WAS HERE LAST ARE PREPARED TO TAKE BACK PEOPLE ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.
I
THEY
"BUT THEY SAW ENORMOUS DIFFICULTIES IN TAKING LARGE NUMBERS,"
MR DAVIES, WHO IS ON HIS WAY BACK TO THE UK FOR LEAVE, SAID THE REFUGEE ISSUE MADE HIS SHORT VISIT TO HONG KONG PARTICULARLY TIMELY.
"I SPOKE TO THE VIETNAMESË GOVERNMENT, JUST I HAVE NOW COME TO ABOUT THE NEW POLICY, AND SO GOVERNOR WHAT THEIR REACTION WAS," HE SAID.
THAT THE
SITUATION
LEAVING, BEFORE EXPLAIN ΤΟ THE
MR DAVIES NOTED
HAD CHANGED SINCE HIS PREVIOUS VISIT, AND DRAMATICALLY SO IN TERMS OF THE NUMBERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS COMING TO HONG KONG FROM VIETNAM.
...
FIGURES, AND
то
TALK
AT SOME
I WAS ABLE TO SHOW THEM THE LENGTH WITH THEM ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE PROBLEM.
M
AND WE WOULD HAVE
THEY SAID THEY WOULD LOOK AT THIS MATTER DISCUSSIONS WHEN I GOT BACK, OR POSSIBLY BEFORE THAT.
"
REPLYING TO QUESTIONS, MR DAVIES SAID THERE WAS AT THIS STAGE THAT VIETNAM WOULD TAKE PEOPLE BACK IN EARLY 1990'S.
NO INDICATION BATCHES IN THE
HOWEVER, HE OBSERVED THAT VIETNAM HAD NOT ACTUALLY SAID NO.
THE
AS TO WHETHER ANY ASSURANCES HAD BEEN GIVEN REGARDING
"WE HAVEN'T GOT TREATMENT OF THOSE WHO MIGHT BE SENT BACK, HE SAID:
FAR, THE TO THAT STAGE YET. CERTAINLY THE ONES WHO HAVE GONE BACK SO
NO PROBLEMS AT ALL.' INDIVIDUAL CASES, THERE HAVE BEEN NO PROBLEMS
BEEN MR DAVIES ADDED THAT THE INDIVIDUALS HAD AND THEY HAD NOT SUFFERED ANY PROBLEMS.
"WE ARE SATISFIED THAT THEY HAVE BEEN CATERED FOR IN A PERFECTLY CIVILISED MANNER."
WELCOMED BACK,
ACCEPTED
BACK AND
/HOWEVER, GUARANTEES
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