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5. ASKED ROBERTSON WHY JAPAN, WHICH WAS CERTAINLY NOT A MAJOR RESETTLEMENT COUTRY, WAS PERMITTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GROUP'S WORK WHILE THE UK WAS, APPARENTLY, STILL TO BE HELD AT ARM'S LENGTH. THE UK HAD TAKEN 20,000 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND HONG KONG HAD ALSO ACCEPTED OVER 14,000. WEG LIKE THE JAPANESE, WERE GENEROUS CONTRIBUTORS TO UNHCR. HE SAID THAT THE JAPANESE WERE IN BECAUSE THEY HAD ACCEPTED THE ORIGINAL #INVITATION AND BECAUSE THEY PROVIDED SIGNIFICANT SUMS FOR VIETNAMESE RESETTLEMENT. HE ADDED, N CONFIDENCE, THAT THE GROUP WERE ALSO MINDFUL THAT OF THE UK JOINED
IT WOULD BE HARD FOR THEM TO KEEP FRANCE OUT.
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