TNAG-1540-FCO40-2104-Further-resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-i-1986 — Page 129

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a. The Home Office will be asked to accept a further

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number of refugee's under the relaxed criteria; and

b. In parallel, the UK will associate itself with other

countries concerned at trends in the continuing outflow

of refugees and "economic migrants" from Vietnam. The

proposal is to enter into multilateral discussions, with

a view perhaps to approaching the Vietnamese government

~rechoing the problem by to see what scope there is for stemming the outflow and

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allowing the return, under acceptable conditions, of those

considered to be economic migrants rather than statute

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5. This is clearly a long term process, whose chances

for substantive progress are difficult to assess at this

stage. You should not refer to these moves but might be

interested in them as an

indication of the pressures felt

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within the UK to find better do solutions than that

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of distant resettlement.

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RV Court

South East Asian Dept

cc Miss Walker UKMIS Geneva

Miss Hebden, Refugee & Special Cases Section,

Home Office, Lunar House, Wellesley Road, Croydon

Mrs Wyeth, DRU ODA

Mr Trevan, UND

Mr Leaks, HKD

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