TNAG-1802-FCO40-2562-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-the-UK-1988 — Page 53

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considering with his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment and others how the problems in this area can be avoided."

paragraph 5 should read:

"We shall now

for refugees. We shall make clear that there must be a genuine international effort, in which other governments state clearly their readiness to match what we intend to do by accepting substantial additional numbers of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong in their own countries. We hope that they will respond generously as they have done in the past. Depending on the response that we receive, and a solution to the problem of pressure on housing resources in certain areas, we shall be ready to go ahead with our new plans.

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I am copying this letter to the recipients of yours.

J.S. Wall, Esq.,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

(C.D. POWELL)

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