TNAG-1392-FCO40-1864-Future-of-Hong-Kong-briefing-for-meetings-and-visits-1985 — Page 174

MAN

Dr Wilson

PS/Mr Luce

مکست

CONFIDENTIAL

MKK 243/5

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

14 MAY 1935

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INDEX

FROM: A C GALSWORTHY, HKD

DATE:

18 April 1985

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Sir W Harding

Mr Hartland-Swann, SEAD

TE.

....... Tutan

Mr Lever, UND

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: FUTURE POLICY

Problem

121

1.

This

submission considers what measures should be adopted in

order to contain and if possible resolve the problem of Vietnamese

refugees in Hong Kong. I suggest that decisions on it should form

the basis of our posture on the report of the sub-committee on race

relations and immigration (SCORRI), both initially

discussion

with the Home Office and eventually publicly. The SCORRI report is

being submitted in parallel, and the future of the closed camp

policy will be considered in that context.

in

Recommendation

A

2.

Sev

Fair Pizza

I recommend that we adopt a three-pronged policy as follows:

(a) Increasing departures

a

We seek to obtain agreement that the UK should accept

greater number of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong on a

regular and continuing basis, and then, basing ourselves on

our decision to do so, we make a maximum effort to persuade

other resettlement countries to increase their uptake.

(b) Decreasing arrivals

We explore with the Vietnamese the

cooperating with a

prospects of their

programme of repatriation coupled with

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