Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
Mr E W Callway
UKMis
Geneva
Telephone 01-
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Date
26 January 1977
"THE BOAT PEOPLE"
1.
A few days ago I obtained from Jean Heidler, UNHCR representative here, a list of the numbers of refugees from among the boat people which various countries had accepted as at 1 January. I thought you would like to have this list which is reproduced here:
Australia
Belgium
!
34 21
Canada
122
France
551
FRG
60
Hong Kong
8
Netherlands
59
Norway
80
Switzerland
11
Taiwan
6
UK
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21
USA
1136
+9 (breakdown not known)
2118
Total so far accepted
Apart from the above number there are still 2,936 'boat people' awaiting resettlement.
2.
The number 21 against the UK refers to the remaining 21 "Mather" refugees in Japan for whom no other places of resettlement had been found. Since then, of course, the UK number of acceptances has jumped to a total of 116.
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