the willingness of individual refugees to express their wish to settle in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, will
But the relief help to relieve some of the pressure there.
will be temporary, so long as the flood of boat people continues, and the flood goes to Hong Kong as the one place where the doors are still open. So I say with as much emphasis as I can that Hong Kong must have its due share of places in other countries' programmes also: nearly one third of all boat refugees in camps in South-East Asia are now in
Hong Kong.
It is because the seriousness of the situation in Hong Kong should be as well known in this conference as the situation in the rest of the countries of South-East Asia who have given first asylum, that the Governor of Hong Kong
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is sitting beside me to-day. With your permission,
Mr Secretary-General, I will yield my place for a few
moments to enable him to explain the grave concerns which preoccupy his Government.
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