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Agreement must be ratified before 30 June 1985. Discussing precise date of ratification with Chinese Government.
5.
STATIONING OF PLA TROOPS IN HONG KONG (Chinese Chief of General
Staff reiterated on 4 April that PLA would be based in Hong Kong after 1997)
6.
People's Republic of China will be responsible for defence of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Has the right to station. troops in part of its territory. Whether troops will be stationed
there is a matter for the Central People's Government.
SUB-COMMITTEE ON RACE RELATIONS AND IMMIGRATION (SCORRI) REPORT ON
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
Resettlement in the UK
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A matter for my Rt hon Friend, the Home Secretary. A further UK intake of refugees from Hong Kong would clearly be viewed
favourably by other resettlement countries; but we cannot of course predict with any certainty whether they would respond by accepting
more themselves.
Closed Centre Policy
8. Temporary and regrettable measure forced on Hong Kong Government in July 1982 by deteriorating resettlement prospects of Vietnamese refugees. 1983 and 1984 arrival figures for Hong Kong compared with those for the South East Asian region as a whole
suggest that policy is having some effect in discouraging others
from setting out from Vietnam.
HER MAJESTY'S OVERSEAS CIVIL SERVICE (HMOCS)
In the
9. HMG recognise that the transition of Hong Kong to a SAR of the PRC will raise problems in relation to HMOCS comparable to those raised in other dependent territories at independence. unique circumstances of Hong Kong, there may be many ways, including provision of a public officers' agreement, of laying down
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