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MAJOR COUNTRIES OF RESETTLEMENT OF INDO-CHINA

REFUGEES (Numbers accepted at 31 March 1979 from 1975)

Australia

Austria

16,073

269

Belgium

412

Canada

3,793

Denmark

134

France

35,500

FRG

Israel

New Zealand

2,661

168

460

866

Norway

Switzerland

USA

Other countries

743

70,098 (apart from 130,000

accepted from Vietnam in 1975)

2,131

Source:

UNHCR - the above figures relate

to both boat and land cases.

Hong Kong have accepted some 15,000 refugees for permanent resettlement in the Colony.