TNAG-0974-FCO40-1193-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-in-other--1980 — Page 151

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P.J. Williamson, Esq.,

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51

2 1 APR 1980

RICER

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Hong Kong and General Department J24.4

Foreign and Commonwealth Officer

King Charles Street,

London,

SW1A 2AA

REGISTRY Action Fakat

Dear Palishe

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Government Secretariat,

Information Branch,

1710 New World Tower,

16-18 Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong.

15th April 1980

Pal to me

21.4

J21.

and

Miss Dorothy Lee, Director of Caritas in Hong Kong, vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Community Council for the resettlement of Vietnamese Refugees, will be in London from about the 8th of May to the 14th of the month.

You may remember that she and Dr. Karl Stumpf of the Hong Kong Christian Service made a successful tour of US and Canada last autumn urging the speeding up of resettlement of the Vietnamese Refugees still in Hong Kong. They will, at the Hong Kong Government's expense, be touring Europe in May and June on the same theme, meeting Government members, officials and representatives of voluntary agencies in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France and Austria. (A copy of their itineraries is attached for your background information).

Miss Lee is making her own arrangements to meet leaders of BCAR, SCF and the Ockenden Venture, but she has rightly also expressed the wish to meet one or more appropriate Home Office officials or, best of all, the committee that deals with resettlement, I shall be asking Stuart Webb-Johnson in the London Office to make preliminary arrangements for her to visit a transit camp probably Thorney Island.

I spoke to Ian Orr before he went on leave and I gathered that he would be in touch with you with a view to meeting appropriate officials and voluntary workers in this field. He mentioned two dates specifically Friday 9th and Tuesday 13th May. Both dates would in fact fit into Miss Lee's sojourn in London, with the 9th being rather better for her.

I wonder if therefore you would first, kindly consider whether Miss Lee might join any session(s) that you may be arranging for Ian Orr, and secondly, make a preliminary appointment for her to call upon the Home Office and any other Government officials that you feel would be appropriate. I shall suggest to her that she gets in touch with you on her arrival.

Yours sincenly,

this hospeld-scalay to Exantine

(R.C. Masefield)

Committee of the

H.K.C.C.R.V.R.