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C D Powell, Esq
10 Downing Street
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DS RAAI
TEL. NO:
RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
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Thank you for your letter of 20 December about the
proposed resettlement of a further 1,000 Vietnamese boat
people from Hong Kong.
The Foreign Secretary is grateful for the Prime
Minister's readiness to agree to what he and the Home
Secretary have proposed. Where the Prime Minister's two
conditions are concerned, the first will be taken up
through urgent diplomatic consultations with other
resettlement Governments. The second is essentially a
matter for internal consideration by the Department of
the Environment and the Home Office.
As you are aware, an adjournment debate on
Vietnamese boat people is to be held in the House of
Commons tomorrow morning.
Sir Geoffrey Howe believes
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