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policy provided the resources of land
available. The Hong Kong Government
how they can provide refugees with
message of the closed centre
and capital investment were
are now considering further
skills sought by resettlement countries.
The calling of another
(iii)
Indo-Chinese refugees.
international
conference on
There are two problems about this. The first is that we are not at
present able to take an initiative given our low resettlement rate.
The second is
that given that the Vietnamese refugee problem taken
as a whole is now much less acute than it was
in 1979, we see little
prospect that a call for a conference would receive interest and
support
from
other
countries
involved.
Potential refugee
resettlement countries are heavily preoccupied with other more
immediate problems, notably
famine in Africa and the exodus
the
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from Afghanistan.
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