TNAG-1802-FCO40-2562-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-the-UK-1988 — Page 292

Mr Hum

Bym,

Hong Kong Dept

CONFIDENTIAL

HKD243/12

N31/10

Site 3110

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Vietnamese Boat People

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Thank you for your minute of 30 September with a brief for the Secretary of State to use with the Home Secretary on 4 October. The Secretary of State has asked two questions on which I should be grateful for enlightenment:-

(a) how durable do we think the trend in your para 3 (i)

is;

(b)

do we have any indications whether the Vietnamese will accept the 250 who have now volunteered to return?

3 October 1988

CC:

Mr Colvin, SEAD

&le

(R N Peirce)

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