TNAG-1800-FCO40-2560-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-principle-of-first-asylum-1988 — Page 102

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as homane a way as possible those who do not meet refugee

criteria and have no prospect of resettlement.

nothing for me to add to Charles Powell's letter. But I

think that your telegram and your initial understanding

of the new Hong Kong policy may have been based on a

misleading press report that circulated at the IRAC

seminar and to which Senator Hatfield referred in the

talk that he gave at lunch. The press report was

speculative, written in advance of the decision, and,

you will now know,

inaccurate.

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