TNAG-1179-FCO40-1481-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-into-the--1982 — Page 84

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Dear Patrick,

Back from my wintry leave and am catching up on a number of issues, a couple of which we discussed on my visit to the FCO on 23rd December.

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The Commandant of the College is looking for an officer to start the secondment on the 22nd March. have discussed the value of this with the Deputy Commandant who was visiting Hong Kong recently. you please hasten Home Office approval for this second- ment so that we can get down to the intricate business of sorting out conditions of secondment etc. Time is running out.

Vietnamese Refugees

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You and Dick Clift seemed to think that the idea of negotiating for all (future) Hong Kong's Vietnamese Refugees to be processed through one of the UNHCR Refugee Processing Centres (say Bataan), merited further consideration. I gather this subject was not raised with the Lord Privy Seal on his visit here.

Have you given any further thought to this. Do you still think that this merits serious consideration as one way in which the UK might be able to assist in this continuing

'migration', given the problems of any further resettlement of refugees in the UK, difficulties which, as I explained, we fully understand. Perhaps you have

had an opportunity to sound out others in the FCO and perhaps the UK Mission in Geneva on this suggestion.

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