11.
(Defensive). Present circumstances do not make it
possible to discontinue the closed camp policy
currently being followed in Hong Kong. The decline
since 1982 in the rate at which Vietnamese have arrived
in Hong Kong, compared with that for the South-East
Asian region as a whole, is almost certainly due to the
closed camp policy. To abandon the policy would cause
a sharp rise in the level of arrivals, and consequently
an unmanageable rise in the camp population in Hong
Kong.
TACTICS
12. Work for a consensus omnibus resolution in the
traditional mould (see Resolution 39/140 (Ref C) ).
BACKGROUND
History
of 3 years.
13. UNHCR was originally set up in 1951 for a period
Since then, its mandate has been extended
for five-year periods; it next expires on 31 December
1988.
Mr Poul Hartling has been High Commissioner
since 1978. His term of office expires this year.