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Whire, PRO Statement slightly amended by Sevetong
o State
FROM: CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
[Mr McLaren]
Private Secretary
DATE:
14 June 1988
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VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG: ANNOUNCEMENT NO PARLIAMENT
BO!
1. Please refer to your minute of 13 June. I submit a draft oral statement
together with supplementaries.
2.
I have noted the Secretary of State's comme
ment that the draft answer
attached to my submission of 13 June was too reassuring. I entirely take the
point about the need to send a clear signal to Vietnam. The thinking behind
the original draft (which had been cleared with the Hong Kong Government) was
the need in this context to head off possible criticism of the new policy in
Parliament and among voluntary agencies in the UK, as well as to meet UNHCR
concerns. But I agree that the need to avoid mixed signals to Vietnam is
the highest priority and the attached draft reflects the Secretary of State's
wishes on this point.
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