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LEGCO QUESTION NO. 16

Asked oy : Hon Martin Barrow, CBE, JP

Date of sitting: 24.2.93

Replied by : S for S

Question:

Does the

Vietnamese volunteer

Government accept that an improvement in the to economy would encourage Vietnamese migrants

return and if so, will the Government inform this Council what specific initiatives they are taking, directly and through Her Majesty's Government, to encourage the new United States Administration to lift their trade embargo against Vietnam?

Reply :

Mr Deputy President,

Government does accept that an improvement

The

in the

Vietnamese economy would

encourage

Vietnamese

migrants to volunteer to return. Our position on the

American trade embargo against vietnam is a matter of

public record and is well known to the United States

Nevertheless, whenever the opportunity

arises we and her Majesty's Government remind them of it.

Government.

800

NOⱭNOT

8618 £87 14039

SC:01 $6. SOZIO