GINAAG
CONFIDENTIAL
SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH GENSCHER, 12 APRIL
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
Nor FINAL
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Points to Make
1.
Remain seriously concerned about Vietnamese refugee problem in Hong Kong. UK is accepting 500 more refugees,
Several friends and
and allies have also and Hong Kong 250. promised to accept more refugees from Hong Kong. pressing others, including EC partners, to do more.
Currently
2.
Grateful
for Germany's
contribution
So far
towards
resolving
this difficult
issue.
Appreciate
extent
of
Germany's refugee problems and that Federal Government need cooperation of Länder in arranging settlement of refugees.
3.
in Hong Kong But about 90 of the 9,100 refugees now have close relatives in Germany. Hope you may be able to encourage the Länder to accept at least those with relatives already in Germany. Anything you can do beyond this would
also be most welcome.
Defensive
4.
(If pressed
response on
Too early to
of other countries to UK
but overall response, assess
initiative.) encouraging that a number of countries (eg the Netherlands, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) have already agreed
to specific
Kong.
increases
in the
numbers they take from
Hong
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