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GIVE BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, SIR GEOFFREY FLOWE

AT HONG KONG HBC KONG CAMP FUX VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE

ON TUESDAY, 4 JULY 1989

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FORRIGE SACRETARY ;

ÂU H. BUîmó has said, I will

i would like to thank you first of all for your patience in following R. Ve each have a difficult job to do and we must try

not to get in each other's way. answer one or two questions on this subject but I shall be having a

press conference this afternoon, as you know.

I would like to give you three strong raaviivas frvä tùo visit I have made today to two of the many Boat People campa hero in

Hung Kông.

First of all, I would like to say Just how well the Bong Kong

Authorities are coping with the flood of new arrivals.

I would like

to pay a warm tribute to all those involved: the police, the correctional service officers, the auxiliary and voluntary service

workers.

The British Government, in Hong Kong alone, hae contributed

that is 150 million Hong

over £12 million pounds in recent months

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Kong dollars and the tents that we have got here are one result of

that.