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(NEW ZEALAND, JAPAN, EC AND OTHER WEST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES). HAVE NOT THUS FAR APPROACHED ANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES, BECAUSE WE THOUGHT THE CHANCES OF THEM BEING ABLE TO ASSIST TOO LOW.
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YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD HAVE A WORD WITH THE TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT ON YOUR RETURN. THE FOLLOWING ARE POINTS WHICH WE
YOU MAY HAVE BEEN USING IN OUR APPROACHES TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS. FIND THEM USEFUL TO DRAW ON, THOUGH YOU WILL OBVIOUSLY NEED TO TAILOR THEM TO SUIT TANZANIA'S PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES.
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10,000 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES CURRENTLY IN CAMPS IN HONG KONG AWAITING RESETTLEMENT. SERIOUSLY CONCERNED ABOUT SITUATION. LARGEST NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN ANY PLACE OF FIRST ASYLUM. AS SCALE OF GENERAL PROBLEM HAS DECREASED SO TOO HAVE EFFORTS OF RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES. ALTHOUGH HONG KONG HAS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE IN THE SOUTH EAST ASIAN REGION, RESETTLEMENT FROM THE TERRITORY IN 1984 WAS CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN FROM OTHER COUNTRIES (3694 COMPARED WITH 10460 (MALAYSIA), 6901 (INDONESIA) AND 6659 (THAILAND). INEVITABLE RESULT IS A FAR LONGER STAY IN HONG KONG'S TEMPORARY TRANSIT CENTRES. THIS MUST BE UNDESIRABLE IN TERMS OF POTENTIAL LONG TERM EFFECT ON REFUGEES: INCREASED RISKS OF ULTIMATE DISORDER IN THE CAMPS ALSO MATTER OF SERIOUS CONCERN FOR HMG. IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT FOR US TO INCREASE OUR OWN OFFTAKE OF REFUGEES FROM HONG KONG IN RECENT YEARS, DESPITE OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TERRITORY: INTEGRATION OF THE 19,000 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES WHO HAVE ALREADY SETTLED IN THE UK HAS PROVED DIFFICULT.
IN RESPONSE TO SCORRI'S RECOMMENDATION, HMG HAVE DECIDED TO ACCEPT FOR RESETTLEMENT A FURTHER ESTIMATED 550 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES ALL OF WHOM HAVE RELATIVES IN THE UK BUT WHO WOULD NOT QUALIFY FOR ADMISSION UNDER OUR NORMAL
CRITERIA. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THERE ARE UP TO 490 IN CAMPS IN HONG KONG WHO MIGHT QUALIFY, AND 60 IN CAMPS
ELSEWHERE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA.
WE ARE NOW APPROACHING LARGE NUMBER OF COUNTRIES TO ASK
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