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ALBASHERMENI DOMETRŲ VAKARANYAAN JADNE SRatio às de sa stati
AIDAAV
Dr Wilson
PS/Mr Renton
CONFIDENTIAL
hurs डि
HKK 243/
Rogerson.
FROM: CO HUM, HKD
DATE: 8 July 1986
cc Sir W Harding
Mr Adams, SEAD
Mr Wi
williams,
VIETNAMESE
REFUGEES IN HONG
KONG:
REPATRIATION
Problem
UND
RESETTLEMENT AND
1.
Our present programme for the settlement of Vietnamese
Unless refugees will be completed in the next few months. it is extended or renewed other resettlement countries will
have little incentive to sustain their Own effort. Refugee numbers in Hong Kong could cease falling, or could even rise again. What action should we take?
Recommendations
2.
I recommend that:
(i)
we
should
seek to
to
persuade the Home Office agree to a further intake of refugees from Hong
Kong;
(ii) as a first step I should write accordingly to the
Home Office on the lines of the attached draft;
(iii) while
is
to involuntary repatriation
Vietnam
not a feasible option now or in the medium term we should begin consultation with resettlement countries, first asylum countries and the UNHCR on the long-term problem of "economic migrants" in SE Asia.
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