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Lord Goronwy-Roberts agreed that returns would

be entirely defensible if he could say in Parliament

after the event that in the light of individual

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interrogation of members of the group, and in the

bigat of assurances given by the Saigon Government,

the Government was satisfied that there were no

special circumstances which could justify refusal

to return;

that members of the group had established that

no claim to residence in Hong Kong and there were no

that special medical or humanitarian considerations;

previous cases had shown that the assurances of the

South Vietnamese Government were reliable; and

that the group had therefore been returned, with the exception (where appropriate) of those to whom

such special considerations applied.

the Ganemos model 5. Lord Goronwy-Roberts said that, given that the undertaking that the

actions of the Hong Kong Government would allow him

to speak on these lines, he was content.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA

6. Lord Goronwy-Roberts said that he would like

to detach this question from that of illegal

immigrants from third countries. Very probably

organisations like Amnesty International, which had a

political bias, would be less concerned about the

return of immigrants to China than to a non-Communist

country like Vietnam.

7. Sir Murray MacLehose agreed but said that

if illegal immigrants were returned to China, there

was likely to be trouble from their relatives in

Hong Kong. However, the pressure of immigration into

Hong Kong required some solution.

This would mean

action by the Chinese Government to cut down legal

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