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9. SWEDEN EXPECTED 608 FROM INDONESIA BY SEPTEMBER AND ANOTHER 600 FROM MALAYSIA BY OCTOBER. NO ALLOCATION HAD BEEN MADE FOR
THE FURTHER 750 EXPECTED BY MID 1980. NORWAY SAID THEIR NEW
QUOTA INCLUDED THOSE RESCUED AT SEA AND WAS DESIGNED MAINLY FOR FAMILY REUNIFICATION AND HANDICAPPED CASES. CHINA SAID THEY WOULD TAKE 18,30 MORE PEOPLE WHO CHOSE TO SETTLE IN CHINA, PARTICULARLY FROM SOUTH EAST ASIA AND HONG KONG. ARGENTINA SAID THEY WERE OPEN AS TO THE ALLOCATION OF THEIR 1,000 FAMILIES (4-5,202 PERSONS). JAPAN SAID THEY WERE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE HAVING CONNECTIONS WITH JAPANESE FIRMS. DENMARK SAID THEIR 520 WOULD COME FROM INDONESIA, MALAYSIA AND THAILAND AND THEY WOULD TAKE SOME 75 FAMILY REUNIFIC -ATION CASES FROM ALL AREAS. THEY THOUGHT IT BETTER TO TAKE PEOPLE
WHO COULD SPEAK NEITHER FRENCH NOR ENGLISH AND ALSO SOME HANDICAPPED PEOPLE. NEW ZEALAND WAS TAKING 130 A MONTH MAINLY FROM MALAYSIA AND THAILAND. AUSTRALIA SAID NO DECISION ON THE ALLOCATION OF THEIR 14,053 A YEAR HAD BEEN TAKEN. THIS WAS ALSO THE FRG POSITION. AUSTRIA HAD NO PREFERENCES ON ALLOCATION WHICH WOULD BE ARRANGED WITH UNHCR FUNCTIONARIES BUT WOULD TAKE
PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO GO TO AUSTRIA.
6. THE NETHERLANDS SAID THEIR EXPERIENCE WAS THAT GOVERNMENTS
WHO EXPRESSED NO PREFERENCE RECEIVED SUGGESTIONS FROM UNHCR. THEY HAD DECIDED THAT THEIR NEW OFFER FOR 1,202 SHOULD ALL COME FROM MALAYSIA, SINCE THIS WOULD MAKE PROCESSING EASIER AND THE METHERLANDS HAD SOME POLICY OBJECTION TO TAKING LAOTIANS OR CAMBODIANS. AFTER THE MEETING WE LEARNT THAT THE NETHERLANDS DECISION WAS MUCH INFLUENCED BY PUBLICITY ABOUT BIDONG ISLAND. SPAIN HOPED TO TAKE 1,023 STARTING IN SEPTEMBER ''PERHAPS MOST FROM HONG KONG
7. FRANCE GAVE NO INDICATION AS TO ALLOCATION BUT LIKE OTHER --3 PICKED UP A QUEY BY MYSELF AS TO HOW THE DECISIONHAKING PROCESS OPERATED. IN REPLY, DE HAAA!! REPEATED THAT UNHCR WANTED AN EQUITABLE BALANCE, BUT DID NOT ADVOCATE FIXED PERCENTAGE ALLOCATIONS. SOME GOVERNMENTS DID THEIR OWN SELECTING AND PROCESSING BUT OTHER HAD LESS E'PERIENCE AND NEEDE SOME ADVICE FROM UNHCR, CUENOD ADDED SOME LEAVE IT TO UNHCR TO DECIDE. MISS BRISSIMI (CHIEF OF UNHOR RESETTLEMENT SECTION) THEN SAID THAT IN PROFFERING ADVICE UNIICR STRESSED BOTH THE NUMBERS CT REFUGEES IN THE FIRST
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