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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
14 February 1973
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Mr Jack Ashley (Stoke on Trent South): To ask the Secretary of St..te for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will propose in the United Nations a quota system for all countries to which refugees wish to go and seek the urgent acceptance of such a cota.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has
already proposed a quota system to help refugees in
South-East Asia and has pressed for its urgent application.
In response, and as part of a wider international effort,
my rt hon Friend the Home Secretary announced on
17 January, his decision to admit to the United Kingdom
a further 1,500 Vietnamese refugees (Hansard Vol 960
No 36 Cols 761-763].
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