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HKK 243/3
23 JUL 1986
Dr Wilson
Private Secretary
HKK 243/3
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DATE: 11 July 1986
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PS/Mr Renton
Mr Adams, SEAD
LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG
KONG
Problem
1.
How should the Prime Minister reply to the letter of 24 June from the Administrator of the Hong Kong Oxfam
Group?
Recommendation
2.
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I recommend that the Private
the Private Secretary write to PS/No
the on
lines of the attached draft. SEAD and Home
Office officials concur.
Background
3.
The Oxfam Report, published in Hong Kong in April, is one of several reports by voluntary agencies over the past
four
been critical of aspects of the
years
which have
closed camp policy introduced by the Hong Kong Government in 1982. The current report presses for
(a) more resettlement in the UK, as an example
to others;
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(b) changes in the closed camp policy more refugee and voluntary agency involvement in their management, a fixed and limited
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.