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1. Foreign Minister stated in written reply to parliamen question on July 7th that Netherlands Government were not committing
themselves to admitting a specific quota of South Vietnamese.
2. Mr van der Stoel said that Government were pursuing humanitarian policy in respect of applications, especially those concerning South Vietnamese who had special ties with Netherlands. He added that seventeen applications had been received and granted so far. Netherlands had also admitted sixty South Vietnamese orphans and granted asylum to South Vietnamese staying here at time Saigon fell.
3. We have since spoken as instructed to Head of Aliens Bureau in Foreign Ministry. De Graaff said implication of Dutch Ministerial statements was that it would be difficult to admit Vietnamese
refugees who had no close connexion with Netherlands. While not refusing to consider applications from refugees without links with the Netherlands, whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere, he doubted
whether these would be successful..
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