Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Chris Mullin (Labour), on Thursday, 14 December 1989, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 65 members in total.

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Refugees from Vietnam

That this House notes with very few exceptions, refugees from Vietnam are fleeing not persecution, but extreme poverty; further notes that this poverty has a variety of causes including: (a) 35 years of continous warfare, (b) the imposition of a Stalinist economic and political system and (c) an aid and trade embargo imposed by the United States of America since 1975 and an aid and credit embargo imposed by EEC countries since 1979; believes that the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia and recent substantial changes in economic and other policies removes whatever justification there may have been for the pursuit of economic sanctions against Vietnam; and calls upon the British Government to restore development aid and credit facilities to Vietnam, to urge other EEC governments to do the same, and to use its influence with the United States government to end its trade and aid embargo or else to accept that the flow of refugees from Vietnam to Hong Kong and elsewhere will continue indefinitely.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

215 

Session

1989-90

Subjects

Development aid Economic situation Refugees Sanctions Vietnam

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk