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4.
The present draft reply follows closely the relevant parts of the Secretary of State's Letter of 14 March to Lord Ennals
in reply to Lord Ennals' Letter of 7 February, which is referred to by Quaker Peace and Service. The only new point is the mention of the recent closure of the Cape Collinson Closed Centre. This has been made possible by the increased pace of
resettlements from the re fugee camps: there a re now 4,700 refugees in the closed camps,
camps, compared with 5,700 a year ago. In the open camps there are 4,200 refugees compared with 5,600
in March 1985.
5.
representative in
Quaker Peace and Service are interested in Indo-Chinese
refugees more widely; I believe they have Phnom Penh supervising a food aid programme. They do not play
refugee camps in Hong Kong, or in re fugee
UK. I see no strong reason to recommend that the Secretary of State reply to this letter himself.
a direct role in the
resettlement in the
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