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UK*
1,429:
731
Belgium
1,180
Switzerland
1,120
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65
345
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The above countries have continuing resettlement programmes.
Smaller number have been resettled in a score of other
countries.
Many countries, however, have failed to do any-
thing at all to accept refugees. For example, there should
be scope for resettling some Indo-Chinese refugees in some
South American countries, but repeated appeals by the UNHCR t
them
as part of the wider international community, have
produced little or no results. The attitude of some sparsely
populated European countries, for example Sweden, has not
been particularly good either, although the latter is now
reported to be likely to admit 250 Indo-Chinese refugees.
Compared with a relatively few countries, the rest of the
world is largely indifferent to the problem.
13 Japan has made generous financial contributions to the
UNHCR programme for Indo-Chinese refugees, but has accepted
hardly any for permanent settlement (51 at the end of 1978).
The Japanese appear to be looking into the possibility of
taking more on a permanent basis. They have given temporary
asylum to some refugees in the past against third country
guarantees of resettlement (see para 15 below). They recentl
dropped their insistence on this as a result, we suspect, of
representations from the UK and others.
BRITAIN'S CONTRIBUTION
14 By the end of 1978, Britain had accepted more than
1,400 refugees from Indo-China. This compares favourably
* Home Office figures for acceptances of Indo-
Chinese refugees as at 31 December 1978
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