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The Prime Minister has asked me to thank you for your letter of 27 August (received on 23 September) concerning the visit to Hong Kong by a representative of the Indochina Resource Action Centre (IRAC).
As you may have heard, Ms Diller, the IRAC representative
Under concerned, has now completed her visit to Hong Kong. the auspices of the US Consulate-General in Hong Kong Ms Diller visited all the detention centres for Vietnamese boat people as well as the San Yick and Sham Shui Po closed centres for Vietnamese refugees. She was briefed on the general problem of Vietnamese refugees and boat people; and in particular on the understanding reached between the UNHCR and the Hong Kong government and the agreed procedures for screening new arrivals. You will be interested to learn that the Chairman of IRAC has been in touch with Sir Antony Acland to express his thanks to the Hong Kong and British Governments for their help and co-operation over Ms Diller's visit.
The Prime Minister much appreciates the interest which the IRAC, and you personally, have taken in the difficult problems facing Hong Kong.
Charles Powell
Congressman Norman Y. Mineta.
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