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Mr Cheong-leen has suggested that we should seek to impose a limit on the number of refugees here at any one time. This is a fast moving scene, with some disturbing recent developments, in which we are in constant dialogue with the UNHCR. We certainly are not able to cope with many more refugees, but to impose a fixed limit would not be realistic in present circumstances.