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DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)

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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

1.

Thank you for your minute of 12 November.

2.

I share your view on the need for a new approach to

the main the problem of the outflow from Vietnam.

As we,

resettlement countries, and the UNHCR have recognised for

some

time,

resettlement

no can

longer be the sole

answer

to the

problem.

Our

aim

must

be

to

identify

a

new

approach that

support

attract will be effective, will

will internationally,

cooperation

of the

Vietnamese

sufficient

somehow engage

the

Government,

and

will also

be defensible in domestic political terms.

13.

governments

We have therefore been talking to a

for some months now to explore what, if any,

number of other

basis there might

be for

a multilateral approach

to the

Enclosures flag(s)

present problem.

The

alternatives to resettlement remain

stark: they are local integration, (Hong Kong has already

made and

continues to make a conspicuous contribution in

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