Closed Camp Policy
4.
No desire to see
absolutely necessary.
closed
camp policy continue any longer than
A temporary measure. Must point out that it
has been effective in discouraging Vietnamese from setting out from
Vietnam for Hong Kong: Hong Kong arrivals have decreased
considerably more sharply than those for SE Asian region as a whole
since policy was introduced in July 1982. Wide support for policy
in Hong Kong: important to
see it in this
(IF PRESSED on SCORRI recommendation that camp s be abolished;
factors which are largely outside HMG's or Hong Kong Government's
control will ultimately dictate how long closed camps will need to
remain in being: rate of arrivals from Vietnam and rate of
departures to countries of resettlement.)
Closed Camp Conditions
:
context.
5. Can do no better than quote words of Mr Hartling, UNHCR, during
his recent visit to Hong Kong. He described conditions in the
closed camp s as "very encouraging" and said the Hong Kong authorites
and voluntary agencies were doing a
agencies were doing a very good job, for which he was
very grateful.