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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1989

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AND HELP HONG KONG TO PRESS FINANCING

FOR INTERNATIONAL

AND THE FOOD

ACCOMMODATION

FOR

SUPPORT IN VIETNAMESE

REFUGEES.

SOVEREIGNTY

THE WHOLE ISSUE WAS A DIPLOMATIC ONE AND BRITAIN MUST

STILL HAD RESPONSIBLE FOR HONG KONG AS LONG AS IT HONG KONG, HE SAID.

BE HELD OVER

TO HIRING RESORT HE HOPED HONG KONG WOULD NOT NEED LINERS TO TAKE THESE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE AS HAD BEEN SUGGESTED AND

BEFORE

WAS CONVINCED BRITAIN THEM OFF WITH LIFE BOATS AT DOVER MUST TAKE SOME REAL ACTION.

TO

OCEAN DROP

IT

NO CHOICE BUT TO SHIP BACK BOAT PEOPLE SAFELY

THAT HONG

WOULD

KONG SHIP

CHOICE NO HAS

BOAT PEOPLE THE

ΤΟ BUT

DECLARE SAFELY BACK

ΤΟ

IT SEEMS UNILATERALLY THAT IT VIETNAMESE WATERS, THE HON MRS ELSIE TU SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN THE LEGISLATIVE

MRS TU WAS SPEAKING MOTION DEBATE ON THE VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE ISSUE.

COUNCIL

COUNCILLOR,

DURING THE

THE HON JAMES

SHE SAID THAT ANOTHER LEGISLATIVE TIEN, HAD REQUESTED HER TO SAY THAT HE STRONGLY SUPPORTED THE IDEA GIVING THE BOAT PEOPLE A SAFE JOURNEY BACK TO VIETNAMESE WATERS.

OF

THE BOAT

SHE SAID IT MIGHT WELL BE THAT THIS PROPOSAL TO TAKE PEOPLE BACK TO VIETNAMESE WATERS WOULD MEET WITH SOME CRITICISM.

US FROM CARRYING "BUT THOSE WHO CRITICISE CAN EASILY PREVENT OUT SUCH A PROPOSAL BY OFFERING TO ACCEPT THE BOAT PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

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"

DOWN ON OUR ALREADY "IT IS UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT US TO CUT OVER-STRAINED, UNDER-STAFFED, AND IN SOME CASES POOR QUALITY SERVICES,

OF PEOPLE NUMBER IN AN UNSPECIFIED IN ORDER TO TAKE

DECIDED WHO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OR EVEN A MILLION

SHE SAID. LIKE TO TRY THEIR LUCK IN A BOAT TO HONG KONG,

——

FOR

PERHAPS THEY WOULD

WOMEN AND

RESETTLEMENT

MOREOVER, HONG KONG COULD NOT CONTINUE TO KEEP MEN, CHILDREN FOREVER IN PRISON CONDITIONS WAITING NEVER TRANSPIRED,

THAT

YEAR IN GENEVA, INVADING OUR

SHE SAID THAT NO MATTER WHAT TRANSPIRED THIS HONG KONG SIMPLY COULD NOT ACCEPT ANY MORE BOAT PEOPLE SHORES, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM MUST FACE UP TO THIS FACT.

"AND UNTIL WE TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES SUCH AS I THE BOAT PEOPLE WILL KEEP ON COMING, AND OTHER NATIONS IGNORING OUR PLIGHT," SHE SAID.

HAVE SUGGESTED,

WILL KEEP

ON

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