TNAG-1790-FCO40-2550-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-third-countri-1988 — Page 69

[(Y MON

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

Telephone 01-

270 2652

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DFG Farr

British Embassy

LUXEMBOURG

Dear Mr four,

MKD 243/-

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Your reference

Our referenceрTAAGH

Date

20 October 1988

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE

82.

1. Thank you for your letter of 6 October to Alan Paul and for your offer to approach the Luxembourg Government about further resettlement of Vietnamese Boat People from Hong Kong.

2. The major effort we referred to in our telno 133 will indeed be required soon. However we are presently in the throes of negotiations with the Home Office over a new resettlement commitment from the UK and this will then have to go through ministers. We would therefore prefer you to hold your fire until we have completed this exercise. We are hopeful that we will be able to offer resettlement to a reasonable number of Vietnamese boat people and this would considerably strengthen the case you would be able to put to the Luxembourg authorities.

3.

We will be in touch with you once the resettlement question is settled and will provide the relevant datâ.

Yous ever,

Judith Slate

J SLATER

Hong Kong Department