FCOAHH
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG:
PRESENT POSITION ON SCORRI RECOMMENDATIONS
1.
Family reunion criteria should be relaxed in respect of
Vietname se in camps in countries of temporary asylum. Home Office responsibility.
(i)
Closed camps
should be abolished and their inmates
transferred to open camps.
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2.
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(ii)
If the closed camps are not abolished, the FCO should
put on record immediately the circumstances in which it would withdraw its sanction from the closed camps policy.
We have drafted passage for inclusion in White Paper and cleared it with Hong Kong.
3. More should be done to prepare the inhabitants of Hong Kong's
refugee camps for life after they are resettled, especially through
training and upgrading of skills.
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4. A considerable degree of ministerial discretion should be
retained in the granting of family reunion applications. Home Office responsibility.
5.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Britain's willingness to relax its family reunion
criteria for Vietnamese in camp s in countries of
temporary asylum should be used as a bargaining counter
to attract offers of additional resettlement places from
other countries.
The aim of such negotiations should be to reduce
drastically the size of Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee
population and to resettle all those whose stay in camps
has been prolonged.
SEAD to draft, in consultation with us, once Home Office
decision is known.
If necessary, and as part of a burden-sharing agreement,