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recently we have agreed to take refugees saved by the British ships Sibonga and Roachbank and those from the Norse Viking
who wish to come here. We have also contributed over 8 per
cent towards the budget of the United Nations' High Commissioner
for Refugees. In all, since 1975 we have agreed to take over
4,500 Indo-Chinese.
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Our record has been good, therefore. The prime call on
our resources must be Hong Kong, where the problem posed by the
60,000 boat people is compounded by the number of legal and illegal immigrants from China.
We are now considering how best we can help at the Geneva
Conference. Thailand, like all the other countries of first
resort, will benefit if, as we fully intend, the Geneva meeting
is successful in working out an overall for coping with the
current problem and if the Vietnamese can be shamed into
abandoning the policies towards their own people which have met
with world-wide censure.
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The Rt. Hon. The Lord Shawcross, GBE, QC.