DENMARK
At the UNHCR resettlement meeting in Geneva in January the Danish representative indicated that Denmark's quota of 250 refugees
for 1986 would be directed mainly towards Indo-Chinese and
"non-Bahai" Iranians The Danish Government is considering a list
of 25 family reunion cases in Hong Kong and has indicated that it
would welcome UNHCR advice on these.
FINLAND
The Finnish representative at last month's UNHCR resettlement
meeting announced a mission to Hong Kong and Indonesia
in February
Finland's 1987 regional quota of 100, which
would seek to fill
includes 10 disabled cases.
FRANCE
French Ministers
and senior officials have been pessimistic
about accepting more refugees, but have agreed to examine family
reunion cases to be submitted through the French Consulate- -General
in Hong Kong.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
The Federal Government
is unable to respond quickly on refugee
matters, which are within the competence of the Länder. The latter
have agreed that 32 Hong Kong family reunion cases could be
considered out of a much larger number submitted by UNHCR. Of the
32, 16 either have left for third countries ог have married and
await details await details of 10 so
and presumably are n ow
thereby become ineligible, and 4 have already gained permission to
settle in the Federal Republic. The Germans
that their applications. may be
processing the other two.
processed,