ог
to
3. The Home Office formula has been sent to Hong Kong with the
caveat that FCO Ministers have taken no decision on whether
not to accept it. On this basis we have asked the Governor
put i t to EXCO on 27 August with the request that EXCO now respond to recommendation 5(iv) (which proposes that Hong Kong accept for settlement a proportion of the ethnic Chinese refugees from open camps). We have underlined that the more forthcoming
EXCO's response to 5(iv), the stronger will be our hand for pressing the Home Office in future to
to take a reasonable number of
refugees under 5(iii).
4.
Responses to other recommendations for which the FCO is
responsible (2, 3, 5(i) and (ii) and 6) are now agreed with Hong Kong and, at official level, within the FCO. I submit them
for Mr Luce's consideration.
5.
for
I f EXCO accept the Home Office formula for 5(iii) an d
produce a reasonable (probably matching) formula for 5(iv), HKD
hope to submit a consolidated set of FCO inputs to the White
Paper, as well as
response a
to the Home
formula, Office
consideration by Ministers over the weekend, beginning 30 August.
If at all
all possible, HMG's reply as a whole to SCORRI should be
agreed by 6 September in order to allow for publication on 26
September (when Mr Waddington returns from the US): this will
resettlement countries to digest
then just allow time for major
it before the UNHCR Executive Committee meeting on 7 October,
intend to mount a major exercise to persuade them to take
when we
more refugees in the light of our
own response.
B.
LEGCO ELECTIONS
6.
64 candidates
seats
have been
nominated for the 24 LEGCO
for which elections will be held on 26 September
August). The Governor
exceptions they have
is pleased with the
(the nomination period closed on 20
f ew
He
has reported that with
political colour.
nominations and with the
considerable public
interest in the elections which has built up.
no obvious
number of
and media
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