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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1989

THE PROCEEDS FROM

THE SPORTS DAY

WERE DONATED TO CHINESE

CHARITIES.

AND

IN MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM, MR YAXLEY SAW INDUSTRIALISTS

DISCUSSED MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY WHERE THEY

TWO AREAS HAD WITH HONG THE SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP THE KONG.

THE OPPORTUNITY THE COMMISSIONER AND MRS YAXLEY ALSO TOOK VISIT THE FAULKNER COURT SHELTERED HOME FOR CHINESE ELDERLY PEOPLE MANCHESTER WHERE THEY WERE BRIEFED BY OFFICIALS ON HOW THE OLD WERE BEING LOOKED AFTER.

то

IN

PEOPLE

HE ALSO HOSTED TWO RECEPTIONS IN BIRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER ORGANISERS OF CHINESE LANGUAGE CLASSES.

FOR

OUTCOME OF MEETING ON VR RESETTLEMENT ENCOURAGING

*

MR MIKE HANSON, TODAY (THURSDAY} OUTCOME

THE TECHNICAL

OF

MEETING

THE REFUGEE CO-ORDINATOR, RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES WHICH WAS JUST HELD IN BANGKOK,

DESCRIBED AS ENCOURAGING THE

"THE RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES,

PARTICULARLY

AND CANADA HAVE MOVED

QUICKLY VERY

то

It

PLEDGES "IRST MADE AT GENEVA IN JUNE,

"THE AIM

IS THAT 50 PER

ON

AUSTRALIA RESETTLEMENT

AMERICA,

THE APPORTION HE SAID.

WILL DE PLEDGES THEIR CENT OF

THIS YEAR, 35 PER IMPLEMENTED IN THE FIRST YEAR STARTING FROM JUNE CENT IN THE SECOND YEAR AND 15 PER CENT IN THE THIRD YEAR.

THE MEANS

WILL COUNTRIES RESETTLEMENT

KONG HONG

IN THE 12 OF

REFUGER OUR HALF

"FOR HONG KONG, THIS MOVE BETWEEN THEM ABOUT 7,000 REFUGEES OUT OF

ABOUT IS MONTHS ENDING JUNE NEXT YEAR, WHICH POPULATION.

"IT 18 ENCOURAGING THAT THE RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES SO QUICKLY TO IMPLEMENT THEIR FLEDGES.

HAVE MOVED

WILL

RESETTLE ABOUT 2,600 AND CANADA

TAKE WILL 700; AND AUSTRIA AND

"IN THE FIRST YEAR FROM JUNE, USA VIETNAMESE REFUGEES FROM HONG KONG; AUSTRALIA ABOUT 1,500 EACH BRITAIN WILL RESETTLE ABOUT NEW ZEALAND WILL TAKE ABOUT 150 AND 100 RESPECTIVELY,'

CONVENED BY AMONG OTHER DISCUSSED

MR HANSON SAID THE BANGKOK MEETING WAS THE SECOND THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES WHICH,

AND PROCESSING RESETTLEMENT THINGS, REVIEWED PROGRESS OF

CRITERIA AND IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS.

"AT THE

MEETING,

PLEDGES

COUNTRIES WERE AGGREGATED AND THEN FIRST ASYLUM COUNTRIES." HE SAID.

MADE

PREVIOUSLY BY RESETTLEMENT THE VARIOUS APPORTIONED BETWEEN

"THE OUTCOME .....