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LKK Q13/1 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
HKK 243/1
Date
6 March 1986
10 MAR 1986
DESK OFFICER
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Dear Pien,
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
1.
Thank you for your Telno 48 reporting your approaches to Schokkaert and Beyens. With regard to the former's request for information on recent intakes by EC partners and ou r telecon
will have seen
Telno y ou
UKMIS Geneva Dutch have accepted a total of 70 refugees.
2.
relatives
88
reporting
that the
The Dutch have told US that their allocation for Hong Kong is 50 places of which, as the TUR indicates, 40 have been filled. The other 30 the Dutch have accepted are outside this quota;
(spouses and dependent minors) are accepted automatically upon request by UNHCR and the relative in question. The disabled refugees are part of a "Ten/Twenty ог
UNHCR more"
they
countries
say
to block
that
off
close
encouraging of their quotas
programme
resettlement for these a proportion of otherwise hard to resettle cases. We should be grateful if you would give Schokkaert these details, and draw upon the
following as required.
3
The response
hope to hear soon
the
from other
responses
partners is at best mixed.
of Denmark and Luxembourg,
that they can
We and
believe that the both may take some refugees. Greece, Italy,
Spain and Portugal have said
none. take
France
i s to decide soon on s ome family reunion cases, and Hong Kong is investigating with UNHCR the
the suggestion in Paris
Paris Telno 217 the possibility of providing intensive French language training for prospective candidates
response
Ireland's refugees
is caught up in
a
for resettlement.
review global
of Irish
rests with
that competence the Länder; we a re considering
for
policy; we expect an answer after Easter. Finally, approaches to FRG
complicated by the fact accepting refugees how to tackle this.
4.
are
SO
to
I fear that
far only
and the UK
Dutch responses Hong Kong's refugees problem may be useful ammunition for you. Outside the EC, the Nordic countries show signs of responding favourably; apart from the Finn's
refugees acceptance of 70 mentioned in UKMIS Geneva's TUR (Finland's allocation for Hong Kong is,
and 80),
that we understand Norway may offer 100 places and that Sweden will offer "a small
we
believe, between
50
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