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PRESS NOTICE
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The Prime Minister, in consultation with the Home Secretary and the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, has decided on humanitarian grounds that this country will accept responsibility for the refugees from Vietnam on board MV Sibonga, who were rescued on the high seas.
They have been in touch with the Governor of Hong Kong.
In taking this decision the British Government stresses
that it cannot make any general commitment about similar
action in future. Consultation will be pursued urgently
with the Government of Hong Kong and the international
community about the whole problem of refugees from
Indo-China.
10 Downing Street
Whitehall,
S.W.1.
28 May 1979
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RECEIVED IN REGISTEY NO. 51
31 MAY 1973
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