DENMARK
At the UNHCR
resettlement
meeting in Geneva in January the
Danish representative indicated that Denmark's quota of 250 refugees
for 1986 would be directed mainly towards Indo-Chinese and
"non-Bahai" Iranians. The Danish Government i s considering a list
of 25 family reunion cases in Hong Kong and has indicated that i t
would welcome UNHCR advice on these.
FINLAND
The Finnish representative at last month's UNHCR resettlement
meeting announced а mission to Hong Kong and Indonesia in February
would seek to fill Finland's 1987 regional quota of 100, which
includes 10 disabled cases.
FRANCE
French Ministers
about accepting mo re
reunion cases to be
in Hong Kong.
and senior officials have been pessimistic
refugees, but have agreed to examine family
submitted through the French Consulate-General
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
The Federal Government is unable to respond
respond quickly on refugee
matters, which are within the competence of the Länder. The latter
have agreed that 32 Hong Kong family reunion cases could considered out of a much larger number submitted by UNHCR.
be
Of the
32, 16 ei ther have left for third countries ог have married
thereby become ineligible, and
settle in the Federal Republic.
that their applications may be
processing the other two.
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and
have already gained permission to
The Germans await details of 10 SO
processed, and presumably are n ow