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PEOPLE WHO

SIR

REPATRIATION,

CONCERNING THE SCHEME TO SEND BACK VIETNAMESE BOAT HAVE NOT ACTIVELY VOLUNTEERED BUT WOULD NOT RESIST DAVID SAID HE HOPED THE SCHEME WOULD START THIS WEEK.

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THAT THIS "WE IN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT ARE VERY KEEN

PEOPLE THAT IS

GOING BACK ΤΟ VIETNAM WHO STAGE IN THE PROCESS,

HOPE THAT HAVEN'T ACTIVELY VOLUNTEERED; THAT THIS SHOULD START AND I

FOR THE UNHCR, HE IT WILL BE STARTING THIS WEEK. THIS IS A MATTER SAID.

HONG KONG MISSION ARRIVES IN JAPAN

THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, ARRIVED IN TOKYO TONIGHT (TUESDAY) AS THE HEAD OF A HIGH-POWERED ECONOMIC MISSION TO JAPAN.

HE IS ACCOMPANIED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, BARONESS DUNN, THE SENIOR LEGCO MEMBER, MR ALLEN LEE AND 11 OTHER HONG KONG BUSINESS LEADERS AND SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY), SIR DAVID, BARONESS DUNN, AND MR LEE WILL MEET THE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, MR TOSHIKI KAIFU, TOGETHER WITH THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN, SIR JOHN WHITEHEAD.

то A LUNCHEON

LATER, THE GOVERNOR WILL GIVE A KEYNOTE SPEECH HOSTED BY THE HONG KONG/JAPAN AND JAPAN/HONG KONG BUSINESS COOPERATION COMMITTEES, THE JAPAN/HONG KONG SOCIETY, THE HONG KONG ECONOMIC AND TRADE OFFICE TOKYO AND THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

BOTH THE GOVERNOR AND BARONESS DUNN WILL LEAD THE MISSION ON A BUSY ROUND OF MEETINGS WITH SENIOR JAPANESE GOVERNMENT LEADERS AND BUSINESSMEN DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

ON FRIDAY,

SIR DAVID AND MEMBERS OF THE MISSION WILL FLY TO SAPPORO FOR MEETINGS WITH THE GOVERNOR OF HOKKAIDO, VISIT THE FIRST HONG KONG PROMOTION IN SAPPORO PRIOR TO A GALA FASHION SHOW STAGED THE HONG KONG TRADE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

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