Closed camps
CONFIDENTIAL
8.
(Defensive)
Regret that present circumstances do not make it possible to discontinue closed camp policy. Decline since 1982 in rate at which Vietnamese have arrived
that compared with Hong Kong,
for South East Asian
region as a whole, is we believe due largely to closed camp policy. In HMG's view, abolition of the policy would cause
sharp rise in level of
and arrivals,
consequently
unmanageable rise in the camp population in Hong Kong.
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an
Rescue at Sea
9.
the On
scheme, am
Rescue at Sea
Resettlement
Offers
(RASRO)
report
that
Hong Kong
was
a
RASRO
glad to regional transit centre in Hong Kong, and the centre is now
operational.