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-3.
In pursuit of these objectives the Prime Minister urged the UN
Secretary General to call an early international conference and
our subsequent lobbying was instrumental in ensuring that this
took place. The conference in Geneva secured promises of more
than 250,000 extra resettlement places and substantial payments
to UNHCR. For their part HMG announced on 18 July that the UK
would accept a further 10,000 refugees, all to be taken from
Hong Kong, and make an additional contribution of £5 million
towards dealing with the refugee problem in South East Asia
over the next 12 months.
Hong Kong and General Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
31 July 1979
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