TNAG-1540-FCO40-2104-Further-resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-i-1986 — Page 196

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Private Secretary

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FROM: CO HUM, HKD

DATE: 11 July 1986

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CC PS/Mr Renton

Mr Adams, SEAD

HKK 243/3

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HKK 243/11

LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG

KONG

2 3 JUL. 1986

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Problem

How should the Prime Minister reply to the letter of

24 June from the Administrator of the Hong Kong Oxfam Group?

1.

Recommendation

2. I recommend that the Private Secretary write to PS/No

10 on the lines of the attached draft. SEAD and Home

office officials concur.

Background

3.

The Oxfam Report, published in Hong Kong in April, is one of several reports by voluntary agencies over the past

four years which have been critical of aspects of the

closed camp policy introduced by the Hong Kong Government

in 1982. The current report presses for

(a) more resettlement in the UK, as an example

to others;

(b) changes in the closed camp policy more

refugee and voluntary

in their management,

agency involvement

a fixed and limited