TNAG-1899-FCO40-2697-Future-of-Hong-Kong-briefing-1989 — Page 189

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ORDERLY DEPARTURE PROGRAMME AT EXPENSE OF RESETTLEMENT FROM HONG

KONG

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ODP is administrative arrangement to enable people who meet UK's

standard family reunion criteria under our immigration rules, and

who are therefore entitled to the enter the UK, to leave Vietnam.

Rate of departure under the programme controlled by Vietnamese authorities. Many of those eligible have already waited for years

to be permitted to leave. No question of ODP being at the expense

of resettlement of refugees from Hong Kong.

REGIONAL HAVEN FOR VIETNAMESE

All our research on this idea leads us to conclude that no

country in the area would be receptive to the idea of the creation

within its territory of what would, in practice, be an isolation

centre for stateless persons.

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