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from Vietnam.

Over the last two years we have given permission for 4,265 with some claim on Hong Kong to stay here. Another 5,300 have been given permission to stay temporarily on an undertaking by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to find them a permanent

home elsewhere. I should like to pay my tribute to the excellent work of the High Commissioner.

Nevertheless

this is a worrying problem, and inevitably we watch with apprehension the growing number here awaiting resettlement which now stands at 3,670.