TNAG-1179-FCO40-1481-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-into-the--1982 — Page 94

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Mr Clift, Hong Kong and General Department

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Mr Burns SEAD

Mr Marshall NAD

Mr Williams UND

HONG KONG: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

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The Lord Privy Seal has seen your submission of 25 January. He agrees the recommendation, with one caveat.

He thinks it particularly important that we should explain our views to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (your para. 2(ii)). In particular, we should look to the UNHCR to help resolve Hong Kong's problems with the rate of off-take by the international community. Although he does not dissent from the suggestion that we should approach eg. the Americans, he would prefer that we do this in conjunction with, or in the steps of, UNHCR.

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At the present juncture he does not foresee any chance of persuading colleagues in Whitehall to increase the UK quota, certainly not in the absence of any pressure on us from the UNHCR.

I would be grateful if you would take account of this in Mr Donald's letter to Sir Philip Haddon-Cave (who, incidentally, will be seeing the Lord Privy Seal next Tuesday).

29 January 1982

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MA Arthur

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