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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: THE FACTS
Short Notes are attached as follows:
The Scale of the Problem
Legal Obligations
(a)
Safety of Life at Sea
(b) First Port of Call
(c)
Admission of refugees
3.
Attitude of Maritime Nations to Vietnamese boat refugees
including section: Number of refugees picked
up or likely to be picked up at sea
P.1 - 2
P.3
P.4 - 5
4.
Acceptances for settlement by other countries
P.6
P.7
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The situation in South East Asia
Attitude of South East Asian countries towards Indo-Chinese refugees
P .8
10
P.11
12
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Hong Kong: Vietnamese Refugees
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British Assistance to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
9.
Attitudes towards a UN Conference
10. Action taken by HMG to Sécuře a Special
Conference under UN Auspices
P.13
P.14-15
P.15A-18
11. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Consultations Preliminary to a Conference
P.19.
20
12. Agreement between the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees and the Vietnamese Government
P.21
13. Numbers of refugees accepted into the UK
P.22
24
14. Effects of migration movements into and out
of UK
P.25
15. Capacity for receiving more refugees
P.26
16. UK assistance to Domestic Refugee Organisations
P.27
22 June 1979
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