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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989

VIETNAMESE "ONCE THOSE

RECOGNISE THAT

PERSECUTION, ASSISTANCE

IN DETENTION CAN BE REPATRIATION

THE KNOWLEDGE AND IN ΤΟ HELP THEM RE-ESTABLISH

CENTRES IN HONG KONG

THAT

ACHIEVED WITHOUT

THE UNHCR THEMSELVES

FEAR

OF

WILL

PROVIDE

IN

VIETNAM,

WE

WILL CONSIDER THIS

THE PROSPECT

BELIEVE THAT AN INCREASING NUMBER OF BOAT PEOPLE TO BE AN ATTRACTIVE OPTION COMPARED WITH INDEFINITELY IN DETENTION IN HONG KONG," HE SAID.

OF REMAINING

THOSE "AT THE SAME TIME WE HOPE THAT THE MESSAGE TAKEN BACK BY

FOR

SEEKING THOSE HOPE NO KONG THAT HONG

HOLDS RETURNING,

DETER OTHERS FROM MAKING A HAZARDOUS RESETTLEMENT OVERSEAS, WILL JOURNEY TO HONG KONG TO NO AVAIL.

"

THE

GOVERNMENT'S

SCREENING VIETNAM

POLICY OF ALL

MR BARNES REITERATED THAT AND ITS NATURAL CONSEQUENCE, WHICH WAS THE RETURN TO THOSE NOT CLASSFIED AS REFUGEES, WOULD CONTINUE UNCHANGED.

0

ADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS AGAINST REGISTRATION OF

SOCIETIES ASSOCIATED WITH CRIME

ADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS HAVE

BEEN PROVIDED

WITH ASSOCIATED

REGISTRATION OF SOCIETIES

BY LAW AGAINST THE CRIME AND ILLEGAL SAID

ACTIVITIES, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON GEOFFREY BARNES, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

HAD

THE HON POON CHI-FAI, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM MR BARNES SAID THE PRESENT CRITERIA FOR REGISTRATION OF SOCIETIES BEEN IN USE FOR MANY YEARS AND WERE WORKING WELL.

THE

ENQUIRIES

PROMOTERS,

AND

OF THE BACKGROUND

ORDINANCE, HAD PROVIDED ADEQUATE ASSOCIATED WITH CRIME,

THE INTO SECTIONS 6 AND 7 OF THE SOCIETIES SAFEGUARDS AGAINST REGISTRATION OF SOCIETIES HE SAID.

"AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FROM TIME

THE LEGISLATION, CONTINUED EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTROLS OVER INFILTRATION BY REGISTRATION WERE INCREASED,

TRIAD

TO TIME TO ENSURE THE

IN NOTABLY

1982 AND ELEMENTS

OVER EVASION

WHEN

OF

MR BARNES SAID.

"ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO INTENTION TO CHANGE THE ORDINANCE AT MOMENT, ITS OPERATION IS KEPT UNDER CONSTANT REVIEW,

THE

H

HE ADDED.

/MR BARNES