„MSIVÖSTERILMANK SHEIMAE
DSR 11C
years but we are currently making special efforts to
achieve this. These include;
our decision to accept for resettlement some
500 refugees, mostly from camps in Hong Kong, who
have relatives in the UK but who would normally fall
outside the Home Office's immigration criteria for
family reunion cases;
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consideration to accept further limited numbers,
subject to the willingness shown by other resettlement
countries to respond to Hong Kong's needs. The Hong
Kong Government would similarly be prepared to consider
absorbing limited numbers from the camps, again
dependent on other countries' responses to the UK's
initiative.
In cooperation with the Hong Kong Government. and UNHCR, we are also actively pressing other countries to take additional refugees from Hong Kong. It is too early
to know what response there will be to our efforts. Positive replies have already been received from several countries. In particular, Australia has announced that it will accept an extra 200 refugees from Hong Kong between now and June 1986, in addition to the 400 which
it was already committed to accepting. This is an
encouraging start and we shall continue to press for more resettlement places for the refugees in Hong Kong. We hope that many other countries will also be able to
assist.
I am returning your constituent's letter.