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Mr Donald

CONFIDENTIAL

HONG KONG: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

PROBLEM

Land Prog Seals

PS/LPS

HKK 243/1

RECEIVED IN ERNGRY NO. 51

1 JAN 162

DESK OFFICIN INDEX

FA

REGISTRY Nation Taken

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1. What to do about the continued arrival of Vietnamese

refugees in Hong Kong as the offtake by resettlement

countries decreases.

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RECOMMENDATION

2.

I recommend that the Lord Privy Seal agree:

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iii.

1981

iv.

that the Hong Kong Government must continue

its humanitarian policy of giving first

asylum to Vietnamese refugees;

that we should explain Hong Kong's position to the American, Canadian, Australian and French missions in London and to the United

Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

in Geneva;

that there can be no question of a further UK quota for Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong

at this stage; and

that Mr Donald, or I in his absence, should reply to Sir Philip Haddon-Cave's letter of 2 December 1981 on the lines of the attached draft.

(Mr Donald sent an interim reply on 17 December

1981). SEAD concur.

CONFIDENTIAL

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