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C
in Japan.
this, and
on
The visiting missions lay particular stress
reject any refugee showing the slightest
equivocation or hesitation.
7.
The net result of these written and unwritten rules
is Japan's abysmal record of resettlement compared to other countries: Annex C compares Japan's performance with that
of countries with much smaller populations.
Recent contacts with the Japanese
8.
1986 their next
When HMG's decision to widen the family reunion
immigration criteria for Vietnamese refugees was announced
in September the Ambassador informed the Japanese, who agreed to consider carefully our request for them to accept
more refugees from Hong Kong.
Murata (Acting
Director-General of the MFA's UN Bureau) recalled that the
Japanese were advancing into early resettlement mission to Hong Kong (the PUS had been told
this in Tokyo in July) and asked for details of other countries' responses (we gave Tokyo details in November, when we knew of Australia's, Canada's and New Zealand's
pledges). Mr O'Neill raised the subject in Tokyo during talks in October on UN matters: Tamada (Director-General of
the UN Bureau) said that Japan was considering how many
refugees might be accepted.
9.
meeting
in
Woodhouse (HKG) was told by Horimura (Director,
Division, Refugees
MFA) at the UNHCR EXCOM
Geneva in October that Hong Kong would
would be Japan's second
resettlement priority after Thailand, and that the mission in early 1986 would Took at family reunion cases
"long-stayers" in the Hong Kong camps.
and
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