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LEAGUE OF THE RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT SOCIETIES: VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
Problem
How to respond to an appeal from the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (LRCS) for Vietnamese Boat People.
Recommendation
2
I recommend a cash contribution of £107,000, which is the sum remaining in the 1985/86 earmarking of £14m for refugee and other relief assistance.
Background and Argument
3 Assistance to the Vietnamese Boat People refugees in the South East Asian countries - continues to be provided by the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the region. Several hundreds of new refugees still continue to land each month on the shores of the countries neighbouring Vietnam, while tens of thousands wait to be accepted by countries of final asylum. This appeal for 1986 which totals Sw Fr 1,854,096 (sterling £675,000) covers the improvement and extension of health and welfare services
The League and of vocational training and educational programmes.
has appealed to National Societies to raise the required funds for the continuation of their services to the Vietnamese boat
people.
4 During the year 1985, according to statistics provided by UNHCR, a total of 34,143 Vietnamese boat people were registered In the in the countries neighbouring Vietnam (36,117 in 1984).
same year
1985, a total of 22,258 new arrivals were recorded, while the departures from countries of temporary asylum amounted to 25, 198. Despite the increasing numbers leaving under the "Orderly Department Programme" the number of new arrivals seems