Hong Kong, to [C and other
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potential resettlement countries in the Commonwealth. multilateral basis, HMG is very ready to accept UNHCR's offer to use their services to secure additional contributions from other
countries.
3.
HMG and the HKG share the Committee's desire to see the number of long-stayers in Hong Kong reduced. Many of the se refugees have been rejected for resettlement on more than one
occasion, and i t is not easy to persuade resettlement countries to look again at their cases. However we shall continue to try to persuade other countries to include long-stayers among the
ers they accept.
numbe
(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 Vietnamese 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 some 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 Government has concluded
would be prepared to
consider accepting for
in Hong Kong a limited
that i t
resettlement
number of ethnic Chinese if the resettlement formed part of
a package aimed at reducing drastically the
Kong's Vietname se refugee population and
those whose stay in camps has been prolonged.
size of Hong
resettling
all