TNAG-0884-FCO40-1094-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 81

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(rara 2of your TUR) As Darusman must be well

aware Hong Kong faces severe accommodation problems, with 23,000 refugees already in the territory, only 6,000 of whom are under the care of the UNHCR. We would hope that a proportion of refugees could be taken to the island centre for processing or in transit. It would in any case, as Morgan pointed out in telephone

conversation under reference, be politically wrong Um reorauity for

us to support a scheme from which

Hong Kong was excluded,

"excluded from the start.

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