TNAG-1530-FCO40-2094-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-general-1986 — Page 78

(i) Para 11,

fourth and fifth sentences updating the results of our campaign as follows:

I would suggest

"results: over 1000 additional places have been pledged by the countries approached, including Canada, Australia, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, New Zealand, Norway, Luxembourg and Greece."

(j) Para 11, last sentence to make Hong Kong's gesture more a positive one, "agreed" might read as "decided".

(k) Para 13, first sentence "Vietnamese".

(1) Para 13, second sentence

"Indochinese" should read

-

"South" should read "North"

(m) Para 13, last sentence add "displaced" after "14500" and delete "refugees"

"refugees" (most were in Hong Kong

Kong in 1975, and thus were not actually accorded refugee status).

(n) Para 14 in Research legally and" after "who".

Department amendment add "entered

(0) Para 15, third sentence "residents".

replace

inmates" with

(p) Para 17, last sentence to read after "250"; "additional resettlement places is. etc.

27 October 1986

E Leeks

Hong Kong Department WH 312 233 4439

cc. Mr Court,

SEAD.