TNAG-0895-FCO40-1105-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 305

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you please wheat together the recant telegrams

(mienased or new) of resettlement places

refugees stating with the reant He, Arumiany,

Jars Blido.chinare

BOAT PEOPLE

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PS/NO 10 DOWNING STREET

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PS/LPS

FS/MR HURD

PS/MR BLAKER

PS/PUS

SIR A DUFF

SIR A PARSONS

ER CORHAZZI

MR MURRAY

LORD N. GORDON-LENNOX'

HD/UND

HD/HK & GD

HD/MVD

HD/NEWS D

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ADVANCE COPY

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HD/OID

GRS 115

UNCLASSIFIED

FM OTTAWA 192345Z JUL 79

TO PRIORITY FCO

TELEGRAM NUMBER 338 OF 19 JULY

AND TO PRIORITY UKMIS GENEVA

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CUR TELIO 7 TO HONG KONG : INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES

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1. DURING A CALL I PAID ON MR ATKEY, MINISTER OF EMPLOYMENT AND IMMIGRATION THIS MORNING, HE CONFIRMED THAT THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT IS NOW PREPARED TO INCREASE ITS INTAKE OF INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES. CANADA IS READY TO TAKE 20,000 REFUGEES THIS YEAR AND AS MANY AS 59,992 BEFORE THE END OF 1980, PROVIDED THAT PRIVATE SPONSORS - ACCEPT-D RESPONSIBILITY FOR 50% OF THE INFLOW, WITH THE GOVERNMENT

IF THESE FIGURES WERE TO BE REACHED, MATCHING THEM ONE-FOR-ONE.

THE ENTRY QUOTA WOULD BE TRIPLED TO 3,000 A MONTH.

20 FR ATKEY HAD BEGUN OUR MEETING BY EXPRESSING HIS APPRECIATION OF YOUR STATEMENT YESTERDAY ABOUT THE NUMBERS HMG WERE WILLING TO ACCEPT IN THE UK.

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