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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1989

SYMPATHISE WITH GRANT THE RIGHT

THE

OF

"I HAVE SAID THAT I FULLY UNDERSTAND AND WIDESPREAD HOPE IN HONG KONG THAT BRITAIN WOULD ABODE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO ALL HONG KONG BRITISH NATIONALS.

SUCH A

IT "I HAVE ALSO SAID THAT, IN MY VIEW,

MOVE, IF

WERE EFFECT ON CONFIDENCE

IN HONG POSSIBLE, WOULD HAVE A VERY POSITIVE

WOULD BE SMALL," KONG, AND THAT THE NUMBER WHO WOULD ACTUALLY LEAVE HE SAID.

HONG

THE GOVERNOR POINTED OUT THAT IN ORDER TO HAVE THE EFFECT

GROWTH KONG'S ECONOMIC

AND WAS WANTED ON MAINTAINING STABILITY. THE SCHEME ON THE RIGHT OF ABODE ISSUE WOULD NEED TO THREE IMPORTANT POINTS.

THAT

SOCIAL COVER

WILL NEED то ENSURE THE UK WITHOUT

"IT WILL NEED TO BE AS GENEROUS AS POSSIBLE; IT MINIMISE DIVISIVENESS, SO FAR AS POSSIBLE; AND IT WILL NEED TO THAT THOSE COVERED CAN ACQUIRE THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN HAVING TO LEAVE HONG KONG," HE SAID.

HAD SAID THAT THE GOVERNOR NOTED THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT

THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN IT DID NOT BELIEVE IT WAS POSSIBLE TO GRANT BRITAIN TO ALL HONG KONG BRITISH NATIONALS BUT HAD INSTEAD PROMISED SCHEME UNDER WHICH THE RIGHT OF ABODE WOULD BE GRANTED TO SOME IN HONG KONG IN A WAY DESIGNED TERRITORY.

то ENCOURAGE

THEM

TO STAY

A

IN

PEOPLE THE

ANNOUNCED,

"I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT THE SCHEME, WHEN IT IS HELP TO PROVIDE GREATER CONFIDENCE AND STABILITY IN OUR COMMUNITY.

RIGHT TO SAY THAT WE WANT

SOMETHING

"MEANWHILE IT CANNOT BE

A SCHEME EVERYTHING OR NOTHING: BETTER THAN NO SCHEME AT ALL," HE SAID.

THAT PROVIDES

WILL

EITHER

MUST

BE

RESETTLEMENT, REPATRIATION OF VIETNAMESE THE OBJECTIVE

SATISFACTORY

THE GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO PUT IN PLACE ARRANGEMENTS FOR RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND REPATRIATION

VIETNAMESE THOSE

WHO ARE SCREENED OUT AS GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

·OF

NON-REFUGEES,

THE

THE

TO MEANTIME, FELLOW HUMAN

IN SIR DAVID CALLED UPON HONG KONG PEOPLE. HAVE PATIENCE, AND TO REMEMBER THAT THE VIETNAMESE WERE BEINGS.

IS LIKE TO "MANY HONG KONG FAMILIES, AFTER ALL, KNOW WHAT IT

THEMSELVES UPROOT

FROM THEIR HOMES AND SEEK A BETTER FUTURE ELSEWHERE, HE SAID.

SIR DAVID SAID

GOVERNMENT HAD

HE

REMAINED

ADOPTED

WAS

THE RIGHT ONE. AND

CONVINCED THAT THE POLICY THE THAT IT WOULD

EVENTUALLY BEAR FRUIT.

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