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Minister:

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Illegal Immigrants

That

Discussions were conducted earlier last year, as you know, with the Chinese authorities and they were successful. is not an easy matter, is it? It is a matter really basically most of us would approach with some reluctance. However, it is essential that there should be adjustment by agreement of the inflow of both legal and illegal immigration, otherwise our efforts here may well be nullified by conditions that you have no control over.

I don't believe anything is going on now but I will be

wrong to rule out the possibility of further discussions

as and when they are necessary in the course of the implementation of the results of the discussions we had

last year.

I think that's the position reported.

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