COLLETJAL
(iv)
(v)
50,00
C
from Cambodia and some boat refugees.
Some
13,
,000 refugees are in Indonesia and about 4,000 in the Thilippines. The ASEAN countries have proposed the selling up of an Island Brocensing Centre to deal with the refugees and Indonesia has offered an island for this purpose. We made it clear at a recent
conference in Jakarta that we could only supsort the İsland 1rocessing Centre if refugees from Hong Kong were not excluded. However any Centre could only deal with a small proportion (perhaps 10,000) of those awaiting resettlement: it is a temporary palliative,
not a solution.
The United States.
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The United States Government have accepted over 200,000
refugees from Vietnam and are now taking 7,000 a month, of whor 500 are being taken from Hong Kong. We have pressed ther hard to do more for Hong Kong. Wo are in: touch with them about approaches to other governments and Ir Blaker, Kinister of State in the Foreign Office, will be discussing this and other aspects of the refugee problem with the State Department tomorrow.
The Nine
We have approached all Governments of the Hine other than Luxembourg, asking them to take Vietnamese refugeza from long kong and have also raised the whole problem in the political machinery of the line (see paragraph 2 (1) (iv) above). The Prench have taken ever 4C,CCO_rufurecr from Vietnam, most of them direct. Other BEC Governments have only been able to take sal numbers.
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Other mopean countries
We have approached a number of other European Governmenta including Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and retria, with
ne, like romltn.
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