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redu
1, leading to
Hong Kong.
rise in the refugee population in
This would also seriously increase the
possibility of disturbances in the camps. The inevitable
publicity any such disturbance would generate would throw
our inactivity into embarrassing relief.
7.
This leads us back to
paragraph 29 in the
Government's Reply to SCORRI, covering Recommendation
the acceptance by UK of refugees who are hard
5(iii) on
to resettle and who have spent years in camps:
"Having
regard
to
the
Committee's
recommendation that if necessary and as part
of a burden-sharing agreement Britain should
accept a small share of those who are hard to
resettle and have spent years in camps, HMG
are prepared to consider accepting, in
reunion cases, further
addition to the family reunion
limited numbers of Vietnamese
refugees from
Hong Kong. A decision on this will be taken
in the light of the willingness shown by other
resettlement countries to respond to Hong
Kong's needs and of all the circumstances at
the time."
8.
In the view of Ministers here, the time has now come
to consider a further intake of Vietnamese refugees from
Hong Kong, to
to follow on from the present family reunion
programme.
We
view of the
now have a clear enough
enough view
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