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113. Of the 466 000 Vietnamese who have chosen this route, all but
45 000 had either arrived in third countries by the end of 1981, or were in centres to be moved within a few weeks. Reference is made below to the international effort which has made this outcome possible.
114. For the Vietnamese boat people and for the refugees from LPDR and Kampuchea the only solution which appeared feasible was that of resettlement in third countries. An international effort of ever-increasing magnitude was mounted alongside the necessary relief measures. As the crisis developed in 1978-79, needs ran far ahead of solutions even though progress- ively more countries demonstrated
demonstrated their willingness to accept some of the refugees.
115. By mid-1979, resettlement quotas had reached the figure of 125 000 for a 12-month period, as a result of appeals made by UNHCR and the governments' own appreciation of the escalating crisis stimulated by widespread public sympathy.
At the July Meeting convened by the UN Secretary-General and attended by 65 countries, resettlement offers
to 260 000.
In addition to the relatively small group of countries which had been implementing programmes prior to
programmes prior to the major crisis of 1978-79, 20 more had come forward to help share the burden. The United States announced it would accept up to 168 000 in the year ahead, Canada made an offer of 50 000 to be spread over two years, Australia offered 14 000 places, France 12 000 and the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom 10 000 each.
116. The cost of resettling such large numbers can be illus- trated by the fact that one major country of resettlement budgeted $ 568 million for domestic resettlement in a single year, while another stated that it budgeted on
that it budgeted on the basis of a per capita cost of $ 13 300.
Over and above the costs borne by receiving countries, just over $ 600 million have been expended by UN agencies, on behalf of Indo-Chinese refugees for relief since 1975, while ICM reports expenditures of $ 337 million for transport and related costs in the same period. Proportionately high expenditures have been borne by non-govern- mental organizations, some of which played a major role in the relief and resettlement effort. To these figures can be added substantial sums expended by UNICEF, ICRC and UNHCR on assistance within Kampuchea, some of which was in relation to a programme of voluntary repatriation and rehabilitation.
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