BACKGROUND NOTE
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
1. 73,692 Vietnamese boat refugees were allowed to land tempor-
arily in Hong Kong in 1979 and 10 in the first two weeks of this
year; 24,377 Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong were resettled
by UNHCR in countries of permanent settlement in 1979 and a
further 836 up to 15 January this year.
2. The British Government have undertaken to accept a total of
11,000 of these refugees for resettlement in the UK.
Last year
3,897 were resettled in this country; it is hoped to resettle a
further 2,600 in the first three months of this year and to com-
plete the full commitment by not later than the end of the
1980-81 financial year.