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DATE: 29 November 1988
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VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
1.
ITV's "This Week" have asked to interview the Secretary of
State. They are putting together a programme on Vietnamese Boat
People and have already completed most of the filming in Hong Kong and Vietnam. The producers are Roger Bolton (of "Death On The Rock"
fame) and Peter Gill (previously Daily Telegraph correspondent in
South East Asia). Gill would conduct the interview. The programme is scheduled to go out on Thursday 15 December: they would like to conduct the interview on Monday 12 December if possible (I believe
diary commitments would allow for this in the morning).
2. The producers would like the Secretary of State on camera for
about five minutes. They have indicated that the key issue for the
interview will be:
involuntary repatriation (response: Hong Kong at saturation
point- new kind of boat people - no realistic chance of
resettlement in the West repatriation and resettlement
monitored by UNHCR had to draw the line somewhere genuine refugees will be treated as such). They are likely to press for assurances that none would be returned without proper guarantees for their safety.
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