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PRIME MINISTER'S QUESTION TIME

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Sympathy with Hong Kong's refugee burden. All should be grateful for their continuing contribution to this major humanitarian

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Any repatriation would have to be considered very carefully. would for example require the cooperation of both the Vietnamese authorities and the international organisations concerned.

We continue to take refugees who meet our criteria for resettlement

in the UK.

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