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HK 2AFY

HONG KONG

SUPPLEMENTARIES

Nationality

There will be

full a

1.

opportunity to discuss

is

nationality questions when the draft Order in Council

the House in December.

The Order follows

debated in exactly the lines forecast when we debated the Hong Kong

Act.

It will create the status of British National

(Overseas) which British Dependent Territories Citizens by virtue of a connection with Hong Kong will be entitled

to hold after 30 June 1997.

Vietnamese Refugees

Resettlement

(a)

2.

Following

Our own decision to accept some 500

Vietnamese refugees, mostly

for from Hong Kong,

resettlement in the UK (announced in September in

Government White Paper in response to SCORRI report "Refugees and Asylum with Special Reference to the Vietnamese") we are actively pressing other

resettlement countries to tak e additonal numbers

from Hong Kong.

(If pressed: too early yet to response to these approaches)

asses S overall

(b) Closed Camps

SCORRI's

in present circumstances,

that recommendation

closed

to

camp

Regret not possible,

accept policy should be ended. Believe that abolition of policy would give rise to new influx of refugees from Vietnam, thereby causing unacceptable and

unmanageable

refugee camps.

rise

in population of Hong Kong's