TNAG-1275-FCO40-1625-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 138

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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

For WRITTEN ANSWER on 21 March 1983

Text of Question

Head of

HKGD

Please submit :-

a draft Answer

& background

to Parliamentary Unit before Noon

FRIDAY 18 March

Mr Tom Arnold (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in view of the statement, Official Report, 14 March, column 40, that Hong Kong cannot be expected any more Vietnamese refugees for resettlement, what is his policy towards future arrivals in the colony of Vietnamese refugees.

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Mr Malcolm Rifkind

The present policy is to provide a place of first asylum

for refugees from Vietnam, pending eventual resettlement

countries

in other centres through the United Nations High Commissioner

for Refugees.

-20/3.