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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1991
INDERD
THE
"NOW THE CPA IS ITSELF CLOSE TO BREAKING POINT AND HAS
M THE ACTING SECRETARY BROKEN DOWN IN SOME COUNTRIES IN THIS REGION, SAID, WHILE NOTING THAT IT WAS A CLEAR MESSAGE FROM MEMBERS THAT TERRITORY'S CONTINUING ABILITY TO CARRY OUT THE CPA COULD NOT BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED.
PROBLEM AND HAS BEEN
"THE VM PROBLEM IS AN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNISED AS SUCH REPEATEDLY IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES.
"HONG KONG HAS CONTRIBUTED MORE THAN ITS FAIR SHARE TOWARDS THE INTERNATIONAL OF THIS PROBLEM. RESOLUTION
IT IS ONLY RIGHT THAT THE
SHOULD SHARE OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING OF COURSE THE UK AND THE U.S., BURDEN AND INCREASE THEIR ASSISTANCE BOTH FINANCIALLY AND IN PRACTICAL TERMS TO HELP RESOLVE THE PROBLEM," HE SAID.
ON THE SUGGESTION THAT THF HMG SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO SPEED UP SAID ITS COMMITMENT TO TAKE 2,000 REFUGEES BEFORE THE END OF 1991, HE THIS WAS BEING ACTIVELY PURSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT,
ARRIVED
AS AT 7.30 THIS MORNING, 9,173 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS HAD IN HONG KONG THIS YEAR. AT THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR 2,321 HAD ARRIVED.
THERE WAS AN INCREASE OF 295 PER CENT IN COMPARED TO 1990. THE TOTAL STRACHAN SAID.
ARRIVALS IN 1991 NUMBER OF ARRIVALS IN 1990 WAS 6,597,
MR
HE POINTED OUT THAT IN 1991 HONG KONG HAD BEEN RECEIVING 95 PER CENT OF ALL MIGRANTS LEAVING VIETNAM CLANDESTINELY.
IN HONG KONG CAMPS WAS
58,000, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE 6,300 WERE VIETNAMESE REFUGERS AND 52,000 WERE VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS, OF WHOM 17,000 WERE SCREENED OUT.
MR
STRACHAN SAID
1'T THAT
WAS IN THE
CONTEXT THIS
CHANGED HAD PROBLEM
'THAT
WORLD THE BEYOND ANY
COMMUNITY MUST ACCEPT RECOGNITION OF WHAT IT WAS PREVIOUSLY.
IN THE LATE 70'S, PEOPLE WERE THEN FLEEING FROM VIETNAM FOR REASONS OF POLITICAL OR RACIAL PERSECUTION.
"MOST RECENT ARRIVALS IN HONG KONG ARE LEAVING OPPORTUNISTIC REASONS.
MAINLY
FOR CLEARLY
SLOWLY BUT CLEARLY,
HE SAID.
THUS A NEW PROBLEM, WHICH HAS EVOLVED REQUIRES FRESH CONSIDERATION AND QUITE NEW SOLUTIONS,
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MANY MEMBERS IMPORTANT TO
ON THE ISSUE OF ABANDONING FIRST ASYLUM, WHICH RAISED IN THE DEBATE, THE ACTING SECRETARY SAID IT WAS RECOGNISE THAT TO ABANDON THE PRINCIPLE OF FIRST ASYLUM WOULD NOT AN EASY OR A COST-FREE DECISION FOR HONG KONG.
BE
HONG REMINDED THEY WERE
HE SAID: "NOR WOULD IT NECESSARILY STOPS BOATS COMING TO KONG. WE WOULD HAVE TO FACE THE HARD CHOICE AS MANY MEMBERS US OF WHAT TO DO IF FUTURE ARRIVALS SANK THEIR BOATS WHEN REFUSED PERMISSION TO LAND HERE.
/"WOULD WE,