TNAG-1540-FCO40-2104-Further-resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-i-1986 — Page 78

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FCO/HOME OFFICE SEMINAR: 17/18 OCTOBER

1.

As requested in Mr Barrington's minute of 18

October I submit short points to make on an issue to be

raised at the forthcoming seminar, namely Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong.

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In the absence of Dr Wilson, and in view of your responsibility for UN matters, I wonder if you willing to make these points on HKD's behalf? background I attach copies of a recent exchange of minutes

between the Secretary of State and the Home Secretary and

an exchange of letters between this Department and Mr

Morris, Under Secretary at the Home Office. Mr Morris is

the key figure on the Home Office side.

3.

We wish to bring the Home Office to agree that more Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong can be resettled in the

It will help if we can reassure them that we are pursuing a wider (albeit long-term) strategy, not merely pressing for continued UK resettlement ad infinitum. But

UK.

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