Classification
DIFFUSION RESTREINTE
Her Poul Рай
18
C
given
Dr
ROUTINE
Reilly
p.a.
بانتان
ZCZC
HUD 243/8
FM LDN C
2
FM LON COREU
TO C Pre
3
TO ALL COREU
INFO*Pre
4
CPE ETR
5 CPE/LON
DATETIME
6
CLASS
DIFFUSION RESTREINTE
DISTY
8
SASIA WORKING GROUP, 17-18 FEBRUARY
REF CPE/LON 59
1. The United Kingdom's
14 2.
× Vietnamese arnued
to Hongkong in 1987,
and 358 i Jon 88 alme,
Mantrausss the problem of refugees
in South East Asia has been emphasised by recent reports from
Bangkok of a new hard line being adopted by the Thai authorities.
The British Embassy in Bangkok has been told by the Thai
interior Ministry that local officials have been ordered to
escort boats carrying Vietnamese refugees out of Thai waters, and
that Thailand intends to introduce similar measures to send Lao
asylum seekers back across the Mekong.
3.
x
11,195 Vietnamese boat people arrived in Thailand in 1987,
the highest rate since 1981. This seems to have prompted the
change of policy. Other countries in the region are also
suffering from increased influxes. 358 Vietnamese arrived in
Hong Kong in January 1988, the highest monthly rate for six
years. Increasingly her new, arrivals are considered economic
considered
by the may migrants and not therefore eligible for resettlement resettlement
358anuary
Gr
MR1AAF
SEAD
LIMITED
SEAD
REILLY
HKD
FED
270 2450
ECD (E)
horised for despute
UND
LEGAL ADVISERS
Comicen reference
Tend of despatch
EEC Embassies
caruntries
SIR J FRETWELL
MR RATFORD
MR KERR
MR GILLMORE
MR MCLAREN
ECD/CDA
YFB 10(1986)
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