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Mr Nash SEAD

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HONG KONG: "VOLUNTARY DEPARTURE CASES"

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I enclose a copy of a letter of 6 March from Ken Woodhouse in Hong Kong. It is a useful resume of the problem, while containing some slight oddities which I have marked. risk of teaching my Hong Kong grandmother to suck (1000 year?) eggs, I plan to write back to Mr Woodhouse on this in due course: not least, of course, to ask him to keep us informed of developments in an humanitarian problem which is unlikely to go away (and which show some signs, from this letter, of causing us political difficulties as well). Doubtless he will hear more from various interlocutors during his forthcoming regional excursion.

Are there any points arising from the attached which you would also like me to make to Mr Woodhouse?

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13 March 1986

CE Leeks

Hong Kong Department

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***OUR REF.: SRD 404/1/C

來函檔號 YOUR REF.:

C. Leeks, Esq.,

Hong Kong Department,

FCO

Dear Clinton,