TNAG-0879-FCO40-1089-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 63

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TELEGRAM NUMBER 20 OF 24 JANUARY 1979

INFO ROUTINE GOVERNOR HONG KONG

YOUR TELNO 36 TO CANBERRA OF 19 JANUARY

VIETNAMESE BOAT REFUGEES. 1. AS INSTRUCTED IN PARA 4 OF YOUR TUR I SPOKE ON 23 JANUARY TO DAEHLIN UNDER SECRETARY IN THE MFA RESPONSIBLE INTER ALIA FOR UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR) MATTERS.

2. DAEHLIN SAID THAT THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT HAD CONSIDERED VERY RECENTLY WHAT MORE THEY COULD DO AND HAD INFORMED THE UNHCR THAT THEY FELT THEY HAD REACHED THE IR LIMIT. SINCE THE SUMMER OF 1975 UNTIL YESTERDAY (22 JANUARY) NORWEGIAN VESSELS HAD PICKED UP 1,244 VIETNAME SE REFUGEES OF WHOM 698 HAD BEEN RESETTLED IN NORWAY. THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT WERE EXPECTING BETWEEN 200 AND 300 MORE. THE NORWEGIAN GUARANTEE THAT THEY WOULD RESETTLE ANY VIETNAME SE REFUGEES PICKED UP BY NORWEGIAN VESSELS WHO COULD NOT BE ACCEPTED ELSEWHERE WAS THEREFORE WORKING OUT WELL IN PRACTICE. THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT HAD TO REMEMBER ALSO THE IR COMMITMENT TO ADMIT REFUGEES FROM LATIN AMERICA DICTATORSHIPS WHO WERE CURRENTLY ENTER-

PNG NORWAY AT THE RATE OF ABOUT 150 PER ANNUM.

3. DAEHLIN PROMISED TO INFORM THE NORWEGIAN AUTHORITIES OF MY APPROACH., HE WOULD BE IN TOUCH WITHME AGAIN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

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