TNAG-1786-FCO40-2546-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-closed-camp-policy-1988 — Page 229

DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)

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DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

FROM:

LORD GLENARTHUR

DEPARTMENT:

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Chris Bale Esq

Director, Oxfam Hong Kong

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PT ARKWRIGHT

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Room 604, Hong Kong Bank Building

SUBJECTham Road, Mongkok, Kowloon,

Hong Kong

In Confidence

I have been asked to reply to your letter of 6

January to the Prime Minister, enclosing the report by

Oxfam Hong Kong on Vietnamese refugees in the territory.

I have read the report with interest.

I share the

concerns which lie behind it, and if I may say so I found

it a thoughtful and sensitive analysis of an intractable

problem.

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I understand that the Hong Kong Government are

studying carefully the recommendations which

you have made concerning the refugee centres in Hong

Kong. This is a matter of considerable concern to the

British Government, as it is to the Hong Kong Government;

(hey) who try to ensure that the centres are run as humanely as

I know that possible within the inevitable constraints.

it is in this spirit that they are considering the way

forward.