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DESKBY 031030 Z

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FM HONG KONG Ø30959Z OCTOBER 80

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

TELEGRAM NUMBER 1385 OF 03 OCTOBER

INFO PRIORITY PEKING

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YOUR TTELNOS 864 AND 873: IMMIGRATION

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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51

07 OCT 1980

DISK OFFICER INDEX

Mo

WHEN I MET HUANG HUA AT THE AIRPORT TODAY,

PA

28.10

TOEB HI

REGISTRY Action Taken

THAT

Anglic

OUR OBJECTIVE IN DEALING WITH THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM WAS TO REMOVE THE INCENTIVE TO COME. TO THIS END WE WOULD (A) MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGARNTS TO FIND WORK: AND (B) SEND BACK ALL THOSE WHO WERE CAUGHT. WE WOULD BE MAKING THIS CHANGE LATER IN THE MONTH, I ASKED HIM TO TELL GOVERNOR XI THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIM BEFORE THEN TO EXPLAIN WHAT WERE WERE DOING AND TO DISCUSS SOME SPECIFIC

POINTS. IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT TACKLING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

SHOULD BE SEEN AS A JOINT EFFORT.

2. HUANG SIAD HE WOULD BE SEEING XI IN GUANGZHOU AND WOULD

PASS ON MY MESSAGE.

3. I WILL BE DINING (TOGETHER WITH YOUDE) WITH NCNA ON MONDAY. WE MAY BY THEN HAVE SOME RESPONSE FROM X1. I THINK WE SHOULD DELAY ANY FULLER EXPLANATION OF OUR POLICY BY THE EMBASSY UNTIL AFTER THEN. IT MAY BECOME EVIDENT AT THE DINNER THAT THERE ARE POINTS OF UNCERTAINTY WHICH COULD BE CLEARED UP WHEN THE EMBASSY SPEAK TO THE MFA.

MACLEHOSE

LIMITED

HK & GD

FED

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PS/LPS

PS/PUS

PS/MR BLAKER SIR E YOUDE

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