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Her Majesty's
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୫ extremely concerned about the 10,000 Vietnamese refugees who are currently in camps in Hong Kong awaiting resettlement overseas. There are по Cambodian s in the camps. It has become very difficult in recent years to find resettlement places for the refugees. A s a result, they have been
As the Rev. Simon
camps.
spending increasingly
asingly long
long periods in
points out in his letter, Hong Kong is indeed very short of space,
100000 freed
refugees who have sought asylum there
dasy task. The Hong Kong Government,
and Caring for the 100000
and
L various
the
since 1975 has not been
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
the
voluntary agencies working in Hong Kong have
provided all the refugees with accommodation
throughout the territory, not just one
nevertheless
eight
by
camps
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(Lin
suggested the Rev. Simon) food, medical, educational and welfare
Alertheless facilities. This is an admirable achievement. Both we and
the Hong Kong Government are however yery anxious to see the refugees
become v.
v. difmilf, but resettled as quickly as possible. We are currently making special efforts to achieve this.
most
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to
the Home Affairs
In September 1985, in response
Sub-Committee on Race Relations and Immigration (SCORRI)'s report "Refugees and Asylum with Special Reference to the Vietnamese" Her Majesty's Government published a White Paper announcing inter alia: These include:
(i) i decision to accept for
(ii)
have relatives in the UK
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resettlement some 500 refugees who who would normally fall outside
criteria for family reunion camps in Hong Kong, but a few
the Home Office's immigration
cases.
(Mostly of these
from
will come from other places of first asylum in South East soia); and
we have also apreed, subject &
depending on the willingness shown by other resettlement countries to respond to Hong Kong's needs, Her Majesty's Coverenment sie prepared to consider accepting further limited
willingness
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