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JH1ALA
Mr Leeks
Mr Layden
Mr Hum
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5 JUN 1986
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HKK 243/1
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INDEX
AUSTRY
PA
Action Taken
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES:
1.
(RA)
"SCORRI" INTAKE
Ms Hebden (Home Office) told me today that Refugee Action indicated
that recently
it believes that
in
the
to
1000 almost (including the 295 already resettled) refugees in Hong Kong might
for resettlement under the qualify
reunion relaxed family criteria announced
Government's Reply
SCORRI last September. RA also believes that over 300 Vietnamese refugees in other places of first asylum in SE Asia would also qualify. tends to believe these estimates, as RA apparently has been right in the past.
2.
these
the
HO
HO officials indicated to RA that it could not regard all
in cases"
the "identified
terms of the refugees as Government's Reply, and that the voluntary agencies would have to (420 apply formally for the admission of any beyond the numbers
from from Hong Kong and 60
the rest of SE Asia) given in Reply. Ms Hebden is to refuse further applications once 500 have
(I resettled
refers to clear whether the 500
Hong I reiterated alone
to the
whole). a region as interest
the consideration of any in being closely involved in the such application by the agencies.
been
Kong
or
Unaccompanied minors
3.
am
not
our
Quite separately from the SCORRI intake, Mr Waddington has just agreed to the resettlement in UK of the families (under the "normal", not "relaxed", criteria) of some 30 Vietnamese who came to UK as unaccompanied minors. Ms Brand (Save the Children) is to tour the
to establish
region
in
September
how
our briefing
many
more
unaccompanied minors are in the camps (not many in Hong Kong, I
for incorporating
believe).
I
am
UNHCR meeting on 13 June.
this
into
the
3 June 1986
CC Mr Nash, SEAD
Dail M
DJ Barton
Hong Kong Department
CONFIDENTIAL