Hong Kong, to EC and other
Europe an countries, and also to
potential resettlement countries in the Commonwealth. On a
multilateral basis, HMG is very ready to accept UNHCR's offer to
their services to secure additional contributions from other
use
countries.
3.
HMG and the HKG share the Committee's desire to see the
number of long-stayers in Hong Kong reduced. Many of these
refugees have been rejected for resettlement on more than one
occasion, and it is not easy
to persuade resettlement countries
However we shall continue to try
to look again at their cases.
to persuade other countries to include long-stayers among the
numbers they accept.
(iv) Hong Kong should accept
for
settlement a proportion of
the ethnic Chinese in its open camps
The Committee has recognised the enormous amount that
Hong Kong has done and continues to do for Vietname se
refugees arriving in the territory. The Committee has also recognised that Hong Kong, although immensely crowded and facing its own immigration pressures from China, has already
absorbed s ome 14,500 Indo-Chinese since 1975.
Nevertheless
in the light of the Committee's recommendation the Hong Kong
Government has reviewed its position on the possibility of
further resettlement in the territory. The Hong Kong
that it would be prepared to
resettlement in Hong Kong a limited
Government has concluded
consider accepting for
number of ethnic Chinese if the
the resettlement formed part of
a
package aimed at reducing drastically
Kong's
Vietname se
the size of Hong
refugee population and resettling
those whose stay in camps has been prolonged.
all