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treatment of those
situation
avenue
returned,
in
but
that the seriousness of the
(Our
defence
all
the
in the camp s
Hong Kong obliges us to explore every
for reducing the problem.
would be
stronger if we were then doing all we could to take refugees for
resettlement in the UK).
16. Improved Training Facilities
Any
scheme
which makes refugees more
to acceptable
resettlement
countries is obviously useful. Much is already being done in this
respect, and the Hong Kong Government are considering further means
to provide
refugees with
encouraged to
this pursue
appropriate
skills.
They should
question vigorously with
UNHCR.
be
This
would fit in well with the SCORRI recommendations.
18 April 1985
Гребельний попу
A C Galsworthy
Hong Kong Department
1. This is an appalling problem. It will not simply go away. We therefore have to face some hard decisions.
2. I agree broadly with the Department's recommendations. Although there will doubtless be a difficult argument with the Home Office, the recommendation on increasing the UK intake and then using this to persuade other countries to take more is uncontroversial. The SCORRI Report gives us just the sort of starting point we needed. Also uncontroversial are the recommendations made about improved training and the possible use of the processing centre at Bataan.
3. Clearly the decision on whether to talk to the Vietnamese about possible involuntary repatriation is much harder. We should anticipate considerable criticism in Parliament and elsewhere if news of such discussions leaked. We must, I think, assume that they would leak. Nevertheless, I think this is now an approach we must attempt. It
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