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matter at their
respective meetings with Herr Genscher (3/4 October) and Mr Ross, Secretary General of the French Foreign Ministry (30 September).
4. At present Hong Kong depends mainly on the US, Canada and
Australia for resettlement places for the Vietnamese. EC countries have accepted varying numbers of refugees from Hong Kong since 1975. The UK, West Germany and France have taken the most (12,300, 2,400 and 1,600 respectively), and Luxembourg
France currently accepts the highest number from all sources (but, not surprisingly given its historical links with all the Indo-Chinese countries,
accepts many more from elsewhere in South East Asia than it does from Hong Kong).
the least (5).
Hong Kong Department
27 September 1985
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