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布政司署
香港下亞畢道
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
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*** OUR REF.: CR 3/2/4821/75
* YOUR Ref.:
HKK. 263/1..
RECEIVED IN
330th April, 1979
R. J. T. McLaren, Esq.
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I now enclose a copy of a Finance Committee Agenda Item which indicates the estimated cost. With the situation changing so rapidly it is not easy to forecast the likely refugee population and therefore the likely additional demands. However, we have had nearly 6,000 refugees in April and therefore we are beginning to get within measurable distance of the projected 10,000 a month during the south-westerly monsoon season. On this basis and with the estimated resettlement places overseas we can expect to have something of the order of 75, 000 refugees here by the latter part of the year.
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So far, of the 22, 500 who are here the UNHCR's processing and accommodation arrangements only account for 6,000 of them. We are taking steps to try to rectify this by transferring the camp at Kai Tak North, which we visited together, to UNHCR. This will take some time to organise because as I have reported before UNHCR's presence here is not sufficiently strong to cope with the administrative burden which processing and accommodation is placing on it. I hope therefore that Ukmis Geneva, to whom I am copying this letter, will be able to say when the UNHCR presence here is likely to be reinforced.
Yours wer
(L. M. Davies)
Secretary for Security
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UKMIS Geneva
UN Department, FCO
D. C. Bray, Esq., HK Office, London
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