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(FROM R J F HOARE, HKD
7 FILE REFERENCE HKK 243/1 DATED 7 JUNE 1982
8 FOLLOWING FOR A K MASON SECURITY BRANCH GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT,
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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
1. Thank you for your teleletter (Ref SCR 1/866/82) dated 3
June.
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We are happy that the Guidance should issue along the lines
you now propose subject to the following further suggestions:-
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Your paragraph 2 (c): If you retain reference to the
absence of a UK quota, we would be grateful if you would
refer to it as a "further UK quota" and could inform HKG
officials of the reasons for the UK's policy. We therefore
suggest you expand last sentence of paragraph 4 to read: "One particularly difficult point in the context of these
diminishing resettlement opportunities is that, as the UK
has fulfilled its commitment made at the 1979 Geneva
Conference and has anyway not been a popular or very
successful resettlement destination, HMG now restricts
admission of Vietnamese refugees to ship rescue cases,
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