TNAG-1274-FCO40-1624-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 88

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DSR 11C

developed as a way of stabilising the caseload. But if

''Vietnamese' attitudes'' do not allow us to promote voluntary

repatriations in current circumstances, we are certainly not

going to be able to secure the sort of access and guarantees

that will make any form of forcible repatriation defensible,

and we do not propose to try.

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