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3.
Hong Kong
13.
Hong Kong does not make a separate contribution to UNHCR.
But costs on Vietnamese refugees incurred by the Hong Kong
Government will amount to about £22 million in 1979.
Other countries
14. An up-to-date table of commitments by existing resettlement
and donor countries is attached.
Readiness of developing countries to offer new resettlement places to Indo-Chinese refugees
these
15. The attached list gives the preliminary FCO assessment of
which developing countries may be willing to accept Indo-Chinese
refugees. In addition, it seeks to assess whether or not
countries would be influenced by offers of financial help.
16. It could cost US$ 2,000 to 3,000 to resettle a refugee in a
developing country or $2,000,000 to 3,000,000 for every 1,000 refugees primarily for disbursement to the recipient developing
countries. There is no readily identifiable source of a UK
aid contribution to such resettlement costs.
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