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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

For WRITTEN ANSWER on

Text of Question:-

17. february.

Head of HKD

Please submit

a draft Answer/S

& Background

to Parliamentary Unit

before NOON

FRI 14 FEB.

35 Mr Keith Best (Ynys Môn): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Hong Kong Government about Vietnamese refugees in closed camps; and if he will make a statement.

Mer Tim Renton

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authorised

Gealand....

(Head of Dept)

ANSWER:

We

[HMG] and the Hong Kong Government remain in close touch on

the Vietnamese refugees problem in Hong Kong. The need for the closed camp policy is kept under constant review. Neither [HMG]or the Hong Kong Government wish to retain the closed camps for refugees any longer than is necessary.

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