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Notices of Questions and Motions: 29th January 1985

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330 HONORARY DEGREE FOR THE PRIME MINISTER

Mr Harry Greenway

Mrs Elaine Kellett-Bowman

Mr David Ashby

Mr Colin Moynihan

Mr Patrick Thompson

No. 49

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That this House deplores the discourtesy of the Senate of the University of Oxford in declining to honour its most distinguished daughter, the Prime Minister, in the traditional way.

331 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

Dr Jeremy Bray

Mr David Howell ✔

Mr Russell Johnston

Sir Nicholas Bonsor

Mr Stuart Bell ✔

HKD

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That this House, while giving full credit to the Hong Kong Government for accepting all Vietnamese refugees who reach the territory, considers the conditions obtaining in the closed camps quite intolerable in a British colony; recognises that unless a programme of resettlement is organised internationally the refugees in both closed and open camps and their children can have no expectations of leading normal lives; and therefore calls on Her Majesty's Government, having concluded a successful negotiation with the People's Republic of China, now to take the initiative by accepting a quota and to call a conference of interested countries urgently to seek a solution to the problem.

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