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DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)
DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note
FROM:
Private Secretary
TYPE: Draft/Final 1 +
Reference
AIDA FM
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C D Powell Esq
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CAVEAT
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Thank you for your letter of 9 June enclosing a copy
of a telegram to the Prime Minister from Dr Le Xuan Khoa,
President of the Indo-China Resource Action Centre
(IRAC). As requested I enclose draft reply.
IRAC is a relatively new organisation, but it is
well informed about the Indo Chinese refugee problem and
about the situation in Hong Kong. Its recent conference
on the subject was well attended. Two Hong Kong
Legislative Counsellors participated: but they took no
part in the drafting of the telegram to the Prime
Minister.
Enclosures flag(s)
It is understandable that the change of policy.
Asould be unwelcome to groups such as IRAC. We had
anticipated this in our consideration of the implications.
of the new policy. However Dr Le Xuan Khoa's telegram
provides an opportunity for us to give assurances about
the basis on which screening will be carved out and on
which eventual repatriation of non-refugees would be
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