TNAG-0557-FCO40-652-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-into-othe-1975 — Page 100

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

Registry No.

SIRITÝ CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

DRAFT PASSAGE

To:-

Type 1 +

FROM

Telephone No. Ext.

Department

As you probably know, Hong Kong are

already giving temporary accommodation in special reception centres to nearly 4,000 Vietnamese refugees and are providing them with medical attention and other essential services. This has exhausted the capacity of Hong Kong to accept refugees for the present; and, with its own demographic and social problems, the Colony cannot be expected to assume this burden permanently, particularly in view of the continuing necessity to accept upwards of 30,000 immigrants every year from China. Some twenty governments are considering approaches which we and the Hong Kong Government have made about resettlement.

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