1982-03-20
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Governor: coming
that
Hong
Chairman. could
to this problem because it is
on
I say finst.
thank
YOU
concern
for
in
People
in
that
Was
recion like around the
Way
Kong
one of infense for a It's now been going on Hong Kong.
very long time. Hong Kong thought that post-1979 and the Geneva Conference then. 3 way of cackling it had been found and the essence of that
that places in the international understanding Kong would provide first asylum and other countries world would make sure that there was no residue of vietnamese refugees
that area and it was
Hong that basis behind left
in
That international carried out its policy for the years after 1979. understanding
down, the type of people arriving broke changed. many countries said that they no longer believe people qualified for resettlement. And the problem we face.
continuing a face
in a Now
very acute form. is that we have number of people arriving and they have no prospects for said elsewhere because
countzieg resettlement many qualified. So that's the background of the problem. The policy that we screen every arrival. kave dopted therefore is. since last year.
determine 23 best as we can who is a genuine refugee
a laid down by UNHCR, and who 13 not. And the who would be people who are moving for essentially anemic
10 the
vanz
Kong
So we have
that We
JRITY OUT.
IO
to
That
from Vietnam that these and We large
resettlement
they
reasons
first So the
Come
18
don't
under
se
be resercled, they don't The people who are not refugees cannot
come to Hong Kong. None of these people wieb Hong Kong
United Scales. Canada. They want destination.
Чоля Australia. Some
them to Europe, They don't want to Sind some place for them to go. We don't wish chem
the sort anguish in detention centres La Hong Kong. That's not
objective is like having
to zage people to go back Vietnam voluntarily. and we have made some progress with
that we've got one group now which has
would be going back over back, we have another IWO groups who. I hope.
dealing the falsly hear future. Longer term. we must find some way of
spend years in The other people so that they don't simply tion centres. And it seems to me that the place they must go back
the place they came from. in the same way as people Illegally cound the world elsewhere go back to the place
resolved by 1997.
jone
who move
-hey
came
Is this the problem which in your view has Over the next six-and-a-half years?
Gover would
like
problem which it's not. be.
my
૩ in my view this is Chairman.
3con see solved as
33 possibly can question of any particular deadline. it's a question of trying
face at the moment, ieai with a very acute prooiem which we
as we possibly can. trying to find a solution to it as 3000
mind. *
and
Well.
all I think we
appreciate
the
immense
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