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would give them under present criteria any priority
for resettlement: they have few skills to enable them
to re-establish themselves elsewhere. So, since for
the reasons I have given they cannot be integrated
locally and they are most unlikely to be resettled,
their prospects are particularly bleak.
7. At this stage I must pay tribute to the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
and his staff for all that they have done in the
last twelve months, particularly in Hong Kong where
an excellent cooperation continues to exist among
all those concerned with this problem.
8.
But in the last resort, our only hope is for
further cooperation from the governments represented
here. We are confident that our many colleagues in
this Economic Community who have privately given us
indications of their understanding will in their
reports on this meeting bring home to their capitals
the need for special treatment of the small scale
but particularly intensive problems of Hong Kong.