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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1994

NO PLANS TO RELEASE ANY MORE VIET MIGRANTS

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NO FURTHER GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) THAT VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS WOULD BE RELEASED IN RESPONSE TO A SUBMISSION FROM PAM BAKER & CO, SOLICITOR, DATED NOVEMBER 25.

*WE

ILLEGALLY

BELIEVE THAT NO ONE IN OUR DETENTION CENTRES IS DETAINED AT PRESENT. WE THUS HAVE NO PLANS IN HAND TO RELEASE ANY MORE VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS.

EACH

"WE HAVE REPEATEDLY SAID THE INDIVIDUAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF

ANY VIETNAMESE CASE MUST BE EXAMINED IN CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT MIGRANT CONTINUES TO BE LAWFULLY DETAINED.

THIS POINT.

"IN REPLY TO PAM BAKER & CO, WE SHALL BE MAKING THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION OF RELEASING BROAD CATEGORIES OF PERSONS FROM OUR DETENTION CENTRES," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

A DETAILED REPLY TO PAM BAKER & CO WILL BE SENT ON NOVEMBER 28.

ATTENTION NEWS EDITORS:

MEDIA (SATURDAY) IN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES, LOWER

THE REFUGEE CO-ORDINATOR, MR BRIAN BRESNIHAN, WILL BRIEF REPRESENTATIVES ON THE SUBJECT AT 3.30 PM TODAY PRESS ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF ALBERT ROAD, HONG KONG.

WARWICK REID WILL NOT BENEFIT FROM CORRUPTION MONEY

IN RESPONSE TO COMMENTS RELATING TO THE RECOVERY OF MONEY WARWICK REID, A LEGAL DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (SATURDAY) MADE FOLLOWING POINTS:

FROM

THE

A "GOLDEN SETTLEMENT OF THE HONG

WILL TO

RECEIVE IS WRONG

SAY

REID THAT * IT HANDSHAKE". REID WILL NOT BENEFIT IN ANY WAY FROM THE THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST HIM AND HIS WIFE BY KONG GOVERNMENT.

AS CLAIMED * REID IS NOT "TO BE FREED WITH AN $800,000 PAYOUT"

REID AND HER BY ONE NEWSPAPER TODAY. THE SETTLEMENT PROVIDES FOR MRS

MAINTENANCE, WHICH IS CHILDREN TO RECEIVE APPROXIMATELY $650,000 AS HALF OF THE ESTIMATED PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE FAMILY HOME IN NEW SOLICITORS. THE $650,000 ZEALAND AFTER DEDUCTING $150,000 OWED TO HER

ΤΟ BE HELD FOR THE GOES INTO A TRUST, THREE-QUARTERS OF WHICH ARE REID'S THREE CHILDREN WHILE THE REMAINING ONE-QUARTER IS FOR MRS REID. REASON NOR WISH TO PUNISH REID'S THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT HAS NO

TRUST, CHILDREN FOR THE SINS OF THEIR FATHER. UNDER THE TERMS OF THE REID IS SPECIFICALLY NOT TO RECEIVE ANYTHING.

/THE SPOKESMAN