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proximately 70 people in this category would be taken om Hong Kong this year.
”。 Mr de Graaf undertook to inform the Government of Hong Kong, through the Netherlands Consul-General there, of the decision the Netherlands Government came to about their 1980 refugee quota and the countries from which they would be taken (para 3 above).
6. Dr Stumpf and Miss Lee expressed their gratitude, adding that they would like formally to record the appreciation of the authorities in Hong Kong for the Dutch Government's generous support to international refugee organisations. Dr Stumpf and Miss Lee added that a service the Hong Kong Government could offer in which the Dutch Government might be interested was to teach Dutch to Vietnamese refugees selected for eventual resettlement in the Netherlands. Mr de Graaf took note with interest and undertook to ensure that this was brought to the attention of the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social Work and of the Dutch Inter- departmental Committee on Refugees (chaired by the MFA on which he and Mr Stutterheim, his Director, sat).
28 May 1980
CC:
K FX Burns Esq
SEAD, FCO
Political Adviser
HONG KONG
Chancery: UKMIS GENEVA
Hong Kong and General Dept., FC0
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