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FROM: A C GALSWORTHY
DATE: 17 July 1985
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ming's
/Mr Kuce
PS/MI
Private Secretary
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
17/7/10
cc: Sir W Harding
Dr Wilson
Mr Lever, UND
Mr Hartland - Swann, SEAD
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Problem
A B 1. The Home Secretary's reply to the Secretary
the Secretary of State's minute
of 20 May to him about policy on Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong. 245/5
178
C
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Recommendation
I recommend
that the Secretary of State should minute back
the Home Secretary on the lines of the attached draft.
2.
Argument
As expected the Home
3.
recommendation
to
Secretary has accepted the SCORRI
that the 400-plus family reunification cases should
be accepted but nothing further. He has also proposed that a reply
to SCORRI be put off until after the Parliamentary recess.
The arguments about the need to do more than this, and the
consequences of not doing more, were
4.
of 18 April, and the paper attached
fully set out in my submission
to it, and there is no need to
repeat them. We have no doubt that the
the course proposed by the Home
Secretary
is inadequate to avert the dangers set ou t in that
submission. Moreover the position as seen from Hong Kong will be
that HMG is unwilling to allow Hong Kong to try to deal with the problem in the only way which
only way which they think
think possible (ie involuntary
repatriation) while also being unwilling to take serious measures to
help resolve the situation.
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