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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1989

PORT OF FIRST ASYLUM POLICY SHOULD STAY

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THE PORT OF FIRST ASYLUM THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY CHANGE IN

WOULD WHICH

PLACE THE POLICY NOR SHOULD THERE BE ANY OTHER

HON THE RISK,

JIMMY AT PEOPLE LIVES OF VIETNAMESE MCGREGOR SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

BOAT

ACTION

SERIOUS

TO THE HE SAID HE WAS ALSO AGAINST ANY PROPOSAL TO DENY FUNDS

VIETNAMESE CAMPS GOVERNMENT WHICH MIGHT BE ESSENTIAL TO MAINTAIN THE AND TO PROVIDE AN ACCEPTABLE STANDARD OF SECURITY AND OF LIFE IN THEM.

THE PROPOSALS FOR MANDATORY HOWEVER, HE WOULD FULLY SUPPORT REPATRIATION OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE SCREENED OUT AS NON-REFUGEES.

SPEAKING IN SUPPORT

OF

THE MOTION

IN

THE

DEBATE

HE

ON BOAT VIETNAMESE WHO WERE THAT

UNHAPPY

PEOPLE, MR MCGREGOR EXPRESSED SYMPATHY WITH THE SEEKING A

BUT SAID

WAS OVERSEAS LIFE BETTER ANTI-VIETNAMESE SENTIMENT HAD DEVELOPED IN THE TERRITORY.

"I HAVE BEEN UNHAPPY OVER A LONG PERIOD

ENCOURAGED GRADUAL SWING OF PUBLIC OPINION, COUNCILLORS, AGAINST THE VIETNAMESE.

OF TIME

BY SOME

TO SEE THE LEGISLATIVE

HONG KONG PEOPLE HAVE

"IT IS PROBABLY TRUE TO SAY THAT MOST NEVER SEEN A VIETNAMESE OTHER THAN ON TELEVISION,

ANTI-VIETNAMESE A DEVELOPED

POWERFUL SEEM TO SOMETIMES TRANSLATES INTO A DESIRE TO GET RID OF INCLUDING, IF NECESSARY, PUSHING THE BOATS BACK OUT TO SEA,

HAVE

BOAT PEOPLE

PROBLEM

YET A GREAT MANY FEELING WHICH THEM AT ALL COSTS

HE SAID.

AND HONG KONG PEOPLE'S TWO SEPARATE ISSUES,

THE ALTHOUGH REQUEST FOR RIGHT OF ABODE ASSURANCES WERE MCGREGOR SAID THE HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLE WAS THE SAME.

THE

MR

CONSTITUTIONAL

AS BRITAIN, THAT MR MCGREGOR BELIEVED

EXTERNAL KONG'S

AFFAIRS, SHOULD AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBLE FOR HONG

TO THE PAY THE COST OF MAINTAINING THE VIETNAMESE AT PRESENT FALLING

BRITAIN COULD HONG KONG AUTHORITIES, AS THAT WOULD BE THE LEAST THAT DO.

CHANGE OF HE ALSO SAID HONG KONG MUST DO ITS BEST TO SECURE A

то ENSURE THAT NO PUNITIVE POLICY BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

WHEN MANDATORY REPATRIATION ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN AGAINST HONG KONG BEGAN.

OF THIS IN CONCLUSION, MR MCGREGOR SAID: "I HOPE THAT MEMBERS

IN THEIR HEARTS COUNCIL AND HONG KONG PEOPLE GENERALLY WILL FIND IT TO RECOGNISE THE VIETNAMESE PROBLEM FOR WHAT IT IS, TRAGEDY WHICH NEEDS OUR SYMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING.

中国

A MASSIVE HUMAN

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