HI COMREF
HONGKONG
PRIMO:
PROPOSAL BY HONG KONG AUTHORITIES HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED
BY HEADQUARTERS AND SHALL BE PLEASED IF YOU WILL CONVEY TO AUTHORITIES
OUR PRELIMINARY VIEWS ON THIS SUBJECT.
SECUNDO: PRIOR TO CONSIDERING A PROCEDURE FOR INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION, NECESSARY TO RECALL RATIONALE FOR APPROACE CURRENTLY APPLIED IN REGARD TO
VIETNAMESE AND OTHER INDO-CHINESE ASYLUM SEEKERS. THIS APPROACH BASED ON
EVENTS WEIC OCCURRED IN VIETNAM AND OTHER INDO-CHINESE COUNTRIES IN 1975 AND THE RESULTING GENERAL CONDITIONS PREVAZING IN THESE COUNTRIES WHICH INCLUDED, PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF VIETNAM, INABILITY TO RETURN IN A REGULAR MANNER AND POSSIBLY SERICUS CONSEQUENCES IN RESPECT OF UNLAWFUL DEPARTURE. MOREOVER, THE VERY CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF PERSONS INVOLVED
PRECLUDED DETERMINATION OF REFUGEE STATUS CN AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS.
THUS,
IN KEEPING WITH THE OFFICE'S POLICY IN LARGE-SCALE INFLUX SITUATIONS, A
PRIMA FACIE GROUP DETERMINATION WAS MADE FOR VIETNAMESE BOAT AND LAND CASES
AND ALSO FOR KAMPUCHEANS AND LAOTIANS.
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TERTIO:
IT IS CORRECT THAT THERE HAS BEEN A SHARP DECLINE IN THE NUMBER.
OF VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS FROM THE 1979 PEAK WHICH WOULD
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