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in Japan.
on
The visiting missions lay particular stress *this, and reject any refugee showing the slightest
equivocation or hesitation.
7.
The net result of
result of these written and unwritten rules
is Japan's abysmal record of resettlement compared to other
countries: Annex
with that compares Japan's performance with of countries with much smaller populations.
Recent contacts with the Japanese
8.
When HMG's
HMG's decision to widen the family reunion immigration criteria for Vietnamese refugees was announced
in
the September
Ambassador informed the Japanese, who
agreed to consider carefully our request for them to accept Murata (Acting Director-General of the MFA's UN Bureau) recalled that the
more
refugees
Japanese
were
from Hong
advancing
into
Kong.
early
1986
their
next
resettlement mission to Hong Kong (the PUS had been told this in Tokyo in July) and asked for details of other
countries'
(we gave Tokyo details responses
when
we
and Canada's
in November,
knew of Australia's,
New Zealand's
pledges). Mr O'Neill raised
raised the subject in Tokyo during talks in October on UN matters: Tamada (Director-General of
the UN Bureau) said that Japan was considering how many
refugees might be accepted.
(Director,
meeting
in
second
told by Horimura
at MFA)
the UNHCR EXCOM
that Hong Kong would be Japan's
9.
Woodhouse (HKG) was
Refugees Division,
Geneva in October
resettlement priority after Thailand, and that the mission
in
1986 early
would look at family reunion cases and
"long-stayers" in the Hong Kong camps.
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