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(c) Hong Kong has remained stable.
Against Intermediate Objectives (1)
12.
(a) following resettlement, the refugee problem has receded with some 125,000 refugees (25% of the total number who have sought asylum) remaining in Thailand, albeit together with 240,000 displaced persons;
(b) Thailand and ASEAN governments have frequently expressed
gratitude for UK support. UK investments in ASEAN have increased (approx £587 m in 1974 and probably totalling
around £4 bn now). UK visible trade with Thailand has also
grown (£144.3m in 1979; £288m in 1985).
(c) international condemnation of Vietnam's illegal occupation
of Cambodia grows: United Nations General Assembly Resolution of 1986 condemning Vietnam passed by a record
115 in favour 21 against 13 abstentions.
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Against Intermediate Objectives (2)
13.
(a) UK contribution to international effort to resettle and
relieve refugees amounts to 2.4% of the total;
(b) the UK, in accepting 20,000 refugees and Hong Kong in
absorbing 14,500 have taken 2.3% of those for whom durable
solutions have been found.
Efficiency Indicators
14.
(a) the cost per head of settling 20,000 refugees in the UK is
of the order of £11,300;
(b) the cost per head of responding to the arrival in Hong Kong
of 112,000 asylum seekers, including the integration of 14,500, is of the order of £5,000 per head;
(c) the cost per head to the UK of relief to refugees and
displaced persons in Thailand in 1985 was £4;
(d) the UK, by providing £3.4 million since 1982 to UNBRO and
other international and voluntary organisations, has
contributed to the raising of a total of £140.4 million, a
ratio of 1:41;
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