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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

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PROBLEM

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The

374,

General Secretary of Quaker Peace and Service has

written to the Secretary of State about HMG's agreement to

accept for settlement 500 more refugees from Hong Kong, and

about the closed camps there.

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RECOMMENDATION

2.

I recommend that Hong Kong Department should reply along

the lines of the attached draft.

BACKGROUND

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3.

Quaker Peace and Service wrote to the then Head of Hong

Kong Department on these subjects in September 1985, just before the publication of the Government's Reply to the SCORRI report on 'Refugees and Asylum, with special reference to the Vietnamese'. Mr Galsworthy replied on 17 September 1985.

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