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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
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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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