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4. In his meeting with Mr Hurd on 2 July he said that Western
countries, including the UK, should promise, preferably before the
meeting, to take a a total of 200,000 away from the ASEAN area. He
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also said that ASEAN countries should be pressed openly to agree to give unlimited first asylum to refugees. He is not proposing
individual indicative numbers for South East Asian countries but
considers that a group total of 60-70,000 would be reasonable.
5. The figure would be for permanent resettlement and would be
taken from among refugees in camps; they would not cover those taken direct by countries when rescued by ships of their own flag.
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6. The UK's and Hong Kong's "indicative quotas" are each 10,000; *
the only others known to us
are:
Sweden
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Denmark
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Norway
Finland
Iceland
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2,000
.1,000
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1,000
100
50
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There is no information available about the response of other countries
to the UNHCR's approach, although we understand that Sweden has just
agreed to take 1,250 refugees and Denmark an extra 500.
This figure would be for the 12 month period to July, 1980, and would subsume the unused part of the previous government's commitment to take 1,500.
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