C.S. 154
香港布政司署
Our ref:
CR 2/4821/75
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COLONIAL SECRETARIAT.
HONG KONG.
3rd September 1976
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Thank you for your letter of 2nd
September concerning the problems which have arisen over the documentation required by your authorities over the admission to the U.S. of Vietnamese refugees who arrived recently in Hong Kong by sea.
2. I am sure you will understand when I say that it is a little disappointing that it should be proposed at this stage that the Hong Kong Government should accept a residual liability for these refugees, notwithstanding that they were landed temporarily on the clear understanding that the UNHCR would be responsible for finding permanent homes for them. interpreted this as meaning that Hong Kong would not have any obligation to any of them, other than to allow them transit facilities here.
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However, in the light of your statutory requirements, I am glad to be able to tell you. that this Government, in the case of these refugees only, is ready to provide re-entry documents on the conditions which you have helpfully suggested, namely, that the existence of the documents would not be disclosed to the
refugee. In addition, we would appreciate an assurance that the existence of this arrangement in respect of these particular refugees should not be made known to any other country or given any publicity whatever.
4.
May I also take this opportunity of asking
whether a re-examination of the cases of those refugees who have not so far been found permanent homes
elsewhere could be put in hand by your staff with
a view to seeing whether they, too, could be found permanent homes in the United States.
Mr. Charles T. Cross,
Consul General
American Consulate, Hong Kong.
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