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HOUSE OF LORDS: UNSTARRED QUESTION: INDO-CHINA REFUGEE PROBLEM

1.

APS/Lord Goronwy Roberts minuted on 1 February about the

unstarred question on the Indo-China refugee problem which Lord

Elton has put down for Answer on 14 February.

2. Lord Elton takes a keen interest in this refugee problem

and last Monday called a meeting of a number of British voluntary

The agencies in order to brief himself for this mini-debate.

Secretary of the Standing Conference on Refugees, who attended

Lord Elton's meeting, tells us that Lord Elton may wish to

raise the following topics during the debate:

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

He may urge that more attention should be

given to the refugees in camps in Thailand

and may claim that the "boat people" have been

given too much publicity;

He will wish to know the Hong Kong Government's

policy on the admission of Vietnamese refugees

and may want an explanation of the Hong Kong

Government's actions over the Huey Fong. lle

will probably also wish to know the numbers of

refugees now in Hong Kong;

He may ask what more Britain can do to help

Hong Kong;

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(iv).