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GOVERNOR:
THE MORE THE BETTER, I CAN'T FORSEE WHAT THE VARIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE VARIOUS HOST COUNTRIES WILL
BE BUT I THINK THERE IS A NEW SPIRIT, THANKS TO WHAT THE SECRETARY O STATE HAS DONE, AND I AT HOPING FOR THE FIGURES TO GO UP FAST.
ECONQUIST: DO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MEAN TO RE-AFFIRM THE COMMITMENT
HADE BY THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT THAT BOAT PEOPLE PICKED UP BY
BRITISH FLAG-CARRIERS ILL PE TAKEN INTO BRITAIN IF THERE IS NO
PLACE ELSE FOR THEM TO GO?
LORD CARRINGTON: WHAT WE'VE SAID, I THINK, IS THAT PORT OF
IRST CALL IS WHERE THEY SHOULD BE LANDED AND ACCEPTED AND THAT
AFTER THAT WE WILL TAKE EACH CASE ON ITS FERITS. OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE
A FINITE CAPACITY TO EVERYBODY AND WE WOULD MUCK RATHER THAT WE
DID NOT GET AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND OBVIOUSLY WE WILL
HAVE TO LOOK AT THIS THING SENSIELY AND WITH COMPASSION.
# THERE WAS A REPORT IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES YESTERDAY THAT THERE
MAS A DISAGREEMENT DETVEEN THE UK DELEGATION AND THE UN AND
SAID THAT THE UN REGARDED THE 10,000 FIGURE AS NIGGARDLY,
A: THE 10,000 WAS THE NUMBER WE WERE ASKED FOR AND THE NUMBER WE
ACCEPTED, SO THE NIGGARDLINESS DOESN'S COME FROM BRITAIN AND IT
DOESN'T COME FROM ANYBODY. THERE OBVIOUSLY IS A PROBLEM IN THE
CAPACITY OF ANY COUNTRY TO TAKE PEOPLE AND I THINK THAT 10,553
IS A PRETTY GOOD EFFORT SINCE THAT IS WHAT WE WERE ASKED TO
DO I DON'T THINK YOU COULD CRITICISE IT.
Q: SO THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN YOU AND THE UN?
A: NOT THAT I KNOW OF.
QUESTION ON IMMIGRATION POLICY
A: I DON'T THINK THAT ANY COUNTRY WHICH HAS NOW TWO MILLION
PEOPLE OF BIRTH NOT INDIGENOUS TO THE COUNTRY CAN BE SAID TO
HAVE DEHVED BADLY ABOUT IMMIGRANTS. I DO NOT ACCEPT FOR ONE
MOMENT THAT WE HAVE BEEN HARD ABOUT IMMIGRATION. WHAT I AM
SAYINC IS OBVOUSLY IF YOU HAVE TOO MANY IMMIGRANTS IN YOUR
COUNTRY YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THAT NEITHER
IS GOOD FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE IMMIGRATED, NOR IS IT GOOD FOR THE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. AND THEREFORE YOU HAVE TO ASSIMILATE YOUR·
IMMICRANTS IN A SENSIBLE WAY WHICH DOESN'T CREATE SOCIAL.
PROBLEMS.
/ QUESTION
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