VIETNAMESE REFUGEES RESCUED AT SEA
Name of Chip
Nationality of Flag
Nationality of Owners
Date of Rescue
No of Refugees Rescued
First Fort of Call following
Rescue Operation
Attitude of Authorities at first
Fort of Call
SS AVA
Burmese
Burmese (State owned)
A
Early July 1976 (Picked up 200 miles SE of Ho-Chi-Minhville)
99
Hong Kong
Initial reluctance to allow refugees to disembark
Whether Representations made
by HMG
Whether Representations made by
UNHCR
Representations made in London to
Burmese Ambassador
Representations by UNHCR to UKMIS Geneva
Result of HMG's Representations
Negative
Commitment (if any) undertaken by
HMG
No Commitment
Date and Place of Disembarkation:
of Refugees
Hong Kong on 3 August 1976
No of Refugees subsequently brought
to UK (whether permanently or temporarily)
None
No in respect of which HMG have a continuing None
commitment to accept