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Dr Wilken
FROM: CO Hum
REGISTRY
DATE:
PA
Action Taken
7 July 1986
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES:
RESETTLEMENT IN JAPAN
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1.
Your minute of 7 July:
the only changes which have speak ing note was drafted are as
occurred since the
follows:
(a)
Para 2: Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee population is now 8,200, of whom 67% have been in Hong Kong for over 3 years.
(b)
Para 9:
monthly
346 were resettled in UK up
up to 30 June: offtake of 40 per month continues (pro
tem).
(c)
Para 10: there have been the following additional offers of resettlement places:
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
29
500 (ie a new allocation of 450)
France
50
15
Luxembourg 12
Norway
75
(a)
General:
"Japan has
resettled
mentioned in para 11 of
the
the five cases
submission: four in
April and one in May.
7 July 1986
Cotten
CO Hum
Hong Kong Department
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