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agencies have identified under

existing

SCORRI criteria; We

might in addition consider as part of our SCORRI commitment accepting a certain number of hard to resettle cases, eg the UK refusal cases of 1980/81; Mr Rawsthorne also explained the "10 or more" plan which enabled UK to accept a few refugees

few refugees under a UNHCR scheme, but not only from Vietnam.

5. We concluded that the best approach now,

if we wished to take the matter any further before Mr Waddington's visit to Hong Kong at the end of September,

would be

for our Secretary of State to write to the Home Secretary at the start of September, when Home Office Ministers return to the office, to suggest an interim proposal on further resettlement pending our pursuit of the long-term strategy we had outlined.

CE Leeks

12 August 1986

Hong Kong Department

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