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of a legal obligation.
I would expect serious criticism
in Parliament and in the Press of a kind which the Government would wish to avoid. There could well be adverse reactions from countries of final settlement
as well as putting our relations with the High Commissioner for Refugees under strain.
3.
of
Hong Kong's current proposals do not involve a breach such "humanitarian obligations" Our problems with them will be of the same kind, though possibly of an aggravated nature, as exist at present, namely the question of the compatibility of proposals for detention for an indefinite period with no hope of resettlement with our obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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