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CONFIDENTIAL

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

Mr K J Woodhouse

Security Branch

Government

Secretariat

Lower Albert Road

HONG KONG

Dew Ken,

Telephone 01-

233 4439

Your reference

Our reference

Date

28 February 1985

(34)

SCORRI

1.

I enclose

а copy of a letter dated 26 February from Dr Baber of the British Refugee Council to Mr David Waddington, Minister of State at the Home Office. Dr Baber's letter encloses a letter from the Australian High Commissioner in London to Lord Ennals, in which the High Commissioner addresses the hypothetical question of how Australia might respond to a new resettlement effort by HMG.

2.

I thought you might find the letter a useful summary of the main factors governing Australia's resettlement programme for Indo- Chinese refugees. Please regard it as sent to you purely for information at this stage, and in particular please do not let the Australian Commission in Hong Kong know you have a copy of it.

3.

It does, however, indicate that Australia

s programme for next year, which would commence on 1 July 1985, might be able to respond to anything helpful that SCORRI were able to say. We gather that SCORRI's report is likely to be published during April.

Yas Eve,

Cliti

CE Leeks

Hong Kong Department

HKCK 243/2

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