TNAG-1273-FCO40-1623-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 153

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T/L HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE, LONDON

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MKK 243/1

RECEIVED IN YENU,

- ε MAR 1983

DESK INDEXX

NO. 51

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FROM: D.G. JEAFFRESON, HONG KONG

FILE REF: NIL

DATE 4 MARCH 1983

FOLLOWING FOR:

S.J. GOMERSALL, WASHINGTON

COPIED TO:

R.D. CLIFT ESQ., HKGD FCO

J.F.X. BURNS ESQ., SEAD FCO

SIR J. CATER, HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE, LONDON

C.W. LONG ESQ, UKMIS GENEVA

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

1. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TELELETTER OF 28 JANUARY TO L.M. DAVIES

(WHOM I HAVE SUCCEEDED AS SECRETARY FOR SECURITY).

2. TO UPDATE YOU ON CURRENT POSITION, I SAW CUMMINGS OF US

CONSULATE ON 23 FEBRUARY. HE REPEATED THAT THE FUTURE US OFFTAKE

WILL AVERAGE 100 PER MONTH (AS IT IS NOW DOING). HE ALSO ADVISED

THAT JVA AND UNHCR WERE NOW JOINTLY LOOKING AT RESIDUALS' HERE WHO MIGHT HAVE HAD A CHANCE OF US RESETTLEMENT EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE

DEBARRED BY PREVIOUS REFUSAL OF A US OR UK OFFER, OR WERE PRC-1982 CATEGORY 4E CASES WHO MISSED OUT WHEN PROCESSING OF SUCH CASES DID

NOT RESTART IN APRIL 1982. THIS REEXAMINATION WILL BE CASE BY CASE,

AND WE DO NOT YET KNOW IF IT WILL RESULT IN MANY NEW ACCEPTANCES

BY THE US. ALSO IT MAY WELL BE THAT THESE WILL BE WITHIN THE

UNOFFICIAL 100 PER MONTH QUOTA, AND THUS AT THE EXPENSE OF MORE

RECENT ARRIVALS.

3. WE WILL INFORM YOU OF THE OUTCOME OF THIS EXERCISE.

4. HKGD PLEASE PASS TO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON.

SIGNED: D.G. JEAFFRESON

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