CONFIDENTIAL

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: THE FACTS

Short Notes are attached as follows:

The Scale of the Problem

P. 1-2

P.

3

1.

2.

Legal Obligations

(b) First Port of Call

(a) Safety of Life at Sea

3.

(c) Admission of refugees

Attitude of Maritime Nations to Vietnamese boat refugees

P.

4-5

5.

1

The situation in South East Asia

i

Attitude of South East Asian countries towards Indo-Chinese refugees

Hong Kong: Vietnamese Refugees

including section: Number of refugees

picked up or likely to be picked up at sea

Acceptances for settlement by other countries

P.

6

P. 7

P.

8-10

P.

11-12

8.

British Assistance to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

P.

13

P. 14-19

9.

10.

Likely Attitude of participating countries at the meeting on Indo-Chinese Refugees in Geneva: 20-21 July, 1979

Consultations and Preparations by the UN Secretary-General, and the High Commissioner for Refugees prior to the International Meeting

P. 20-21

11.

Agreement between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Vietnamese Government

P.

22

12.

Numbers of refugees..accepted into the UK

P

23-24

13.

Effects of migration movements into and out of the UK

Capacity for receiving more refugees

P: 25

P. 26

14.

15.

UK assistance to Domestic Refugee Organisations

5 July 1979

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P. 27

South East Asian Department

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