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VI ETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG: RESETTLEMENT

The Foreign Secretary has seen your letter of

5 December recording the Prime Minister's preliminary

views on the proposal that we should take an additional

1,000 Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong over the

The Prime Minister said she would like

next 2 years.

to consider this issue in parallel with that of

citizenship for investors from Hong Kong, and reach

decisions on both at the same time.

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The Prime Minister will now have seen the

Home Secretary's minute of 2 December and the Foreign

Secretary's minute of 6 December about what we are doing

to help Hong Kong businessmen investing in this country

to settle here and eventually acquire citizenship.

Foreign Secretary believes that the greater flexibility

which the Home Secretary is prepared to show in

individual cases, and the efforts we are making to

The

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