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Mrs D. B. Lasan Charge de Mission
United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees
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ANNEX D
26 June 1985
At the last resettlement meeting held on 15 March 1985, David Kornbluth asked about the possibility of combining both of our open centres (Jubilee and Kai Tak) into one open centre. I explained that, in principle, I had no objection to this proposal, provided that the number in the combined centre was manageable. I promised to provide a more specific definition of what I meant by manageable numbers.
In the three month period since that last resettlement meet- ing 394 refugees have been resettled from the open centres. The combined open centre population has, therefore, reduced from 5,765
on 1 March to 5,371 on 1 June 1985.
During these three months, 167 refugees were resettled from Jubilee and 227 from Kai Tak. These figures represent a monthly average of 56 from Jubilee and 76 from Kai Tak.
During the first five months of this year a total of 527 open centre refugees were resettled overseas. Of this figure 197 were from Jubilee and 330 were from Kai Tak, giving monthly averages of 39 and 65 respectively.
If we were to assume that 100 refugees were to continue to be resettled from the two open centres each month for the next 12 months (and I shall return to this assumption later) then, by the middle of 1986, the combined open centre population in Hong Kong should be about 4,000.
If we allow for the 600 refugees who are currently living outside Kai Tak because of their work, then the number of refugees who would be resident in one combined open centre would be 2,400. Based on previous experience, it is felt that this would be a manageable figure for one open centre.
As regards the ethnic origin of the refugees in the open centres, departures for resettlement from Kai Tak are about 80% ethnic Chinese and 20% ethnic Vietnamese (about two thirds of thore living outside Kai Tak are ethnic Chinese). Thercfore given these
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