GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.
TUE 27 JUL 93 08:46
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ECVIIS
I called in Shu Jianping of NCNA on 26 July. I said the Hong Kong Government welcomed the statement by the MFA spokesman on 22 July that the Chinese side would take back as soon as possible those Vietnamese refugees who had been resettled in China and that relevant Chinese authorities had taken measures to prevent the recent influx into Hong Kong of the Vietnamese refugees who said they had come from Beihei of Guangxi Province. However, the number of arrivals continued. New vessels were reaching Hong Kong every day.
Since we For the past week alone 672 ECVIIs had arrived. raised the subject with the NCNA the first time on 9 July, 1,386 more had come, which constituted about 90% of the total number of arrivals of 1,575 so far.
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Particularly worrying was that we learned from arrivals in the past two weeks that as they knew the first batch of ECVIIS who reached Hong Kong a month ago had not been repatriated, they therefore left for Hong Kong because
I said this they assumed there was a chance to settle here. showed the only effective way to deter further arrivals was to return those who had already reached Hong Kong immediately
to China.
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The favoured route was now by land, through Guangzhou, to the Pearl River estuary between Tai Ping and Sai Heung where boats were bought for a 2-3 hour trip along the coast to Hong Kong waters. None of the groups reported any attempt of interference by local PRC officials with their departure. This seemed not to be in line with the Chinese statement that relevant authorities had taken
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