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SECURITY BRANCH
GOVERNMENT
SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
9th November 1982
R MacDowall Esq Home Office
Lunar House
Croydon
Surrey
Fikk 243|1
ENGLAND
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Dear Roy.
mv. "Poyang" and "City of Edinburgh
We discussed the case of the mv "Poyang", and the 26
Vietnamese refugees from it remaining here when we met in Geneva.
2.
On 29 October the Charge de Mission of the UNHCR's
Hong Kong Office convened one of her periodic meetings to review
progress on resettlement of refugees. These meetings, which senior
representatives of the main Consulates and Commissions involved in*
refugee resettlement attend, are an opportunity for the UNHCR and
the Hong Kong Government to monitor arrivals and departures of
refugees in Hong Kong, and most important of all, to press the
representatives present to do more.
3.
During these meetings progress on resettlement of "ship
rescue" cases is reviewed case by case. The "Poyang" cases are the second largest outstanding group of "ship rescue" refugees pending
resettlement overseas.
(The largest group - the "City of Edinburgh"
is referred to below.) Under the policy we introduced 18 months
ago, refugees rescued at sea are given temporary asylum here under guarantee of resettlement by the "flag" country of the vessel
concerned
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or in the case of a flag of convenience, under the DISERO scheme operated by the UNHCR. Because of the problems encountered /
if we