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improvements which should go a long way towards meeting a
number of important concerns expressed during the final
consultation period (Annex III to this Memorandum
contains a table, illustrating the areas of the draft
where improvements have already been made).
42.
The British Government will consider carefully in
the light of reactions in Hong Kong in the course of the
second round of public consultation, what further
improvements are required.
The Government will be paying
particular attention to the section on the future
constitutional structure, which has aroused some
controversy in Hong Kong. It will be most important to
ensure that the model for Hong Kong's future political
system commands general confidence in Hong Kong.
X: Vietnamese Boat People
43. Under the terms of the agreement reached at the
Geneva Conference on Indo Chinese refugees in 1979, Hong
Kong and a number of countries in the region have
provided temporary shelter to all boat people arriving
from Vietnam, on the understanding that they would
eventually be resettled by the international community.
Since 1975 some 133,000 boat people have arrived in Hong
Kong from Vietnam, of whom over 100,000 have been
resettled abroad. In the years immediately after the
Geneva Conference, the number of boat people remaining
Hong Kong steadily diminished. But in recent years the
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trend was reversed and the arrangements agreed at that
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