TNAG-0880-FCO40-1090-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 53

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

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WRITTEN answer cn14 February 1979

UND.

The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Unit through your Under-Secretary by

NOEN ON TUESDAY

13 FEBRUARY 1979.

Mr Jack Ashley (Stoke on Trent South): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will propose a Commonwealth initiative to speed the resettlement of refugees fro Indo China with a view to supplementing the work of the United Nations High

Commission.

A.

No. Some Commonwealth countries are already supporting

the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for

Refugees in this respect. Others of our Commonwealth

friends have formidable refugee problems of their own

to contend with.

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