VB1AXI(2)
CONFIDENTIAL
MEETING OF BRITISH AND FRENCH COORDINATORS:
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
Essential Facts
General
7 NOVEMBER
1.
8,300
Vietnamese
in
resettlement; the
asy lum in South East Asia.
largest
long
resettlement
periods in
prospects:
Hong Kong
because
63%
have
been
refugees
number
of any
of
They are spending increasingly diminishing
more than
Hong Kong awaiting
place
first
of
there
3
years.
Recent Action by HMG
2.
The Government announced in September 1985:
some
(i) that HMG
500 refugees, mostly from Hong Kong, who have
relatives
will accept for resettlement
in
the UK but who
would
normally
for
fall outside the Home Office's criteria
family reunion cases;
(ii) that, depending
the willingness on
other
Hong
needs, Kong's
countries resettlement
HMG
to
are
shown by
respond
prepared
to
to
consider
from
would
accepting
Hong Kong.
further
limited
numbers
The Hong Kong
Government
also be
prepared
to absorb
limited
numbers
from the
camps.
(Hong
Kong
is
absorbing up to 250 more refugees.)
CONFIDENTIAL