CONFIDENTIAL
SECRETARY GENERAL'S MEETING ON REFUGEES AND DISILACED PERSONS
IN SOUTH EAST ASIA: GENEVA 20-21 JULY 1979
BRIEF No 2: PLACES AND FINANCE
FOINTS TO MAKE
UK Commitment
1. Will take a further ten thousand refugees, from Hong Kong where over (6,000 avait resettlement over period to be agreed with the Governor. Overall commitment about fourteen thousand.
2.
We will make a further £5million available for South East Asian refugees over the next 12 months. Detailed decision on allocation will depend on developments at the meeting: but we would be prepared
to make a contribution to scheme for subsidising resettlement in developing countries.
Phasing
3. If pressed 7 It is not possible to say how soon the additional refugees will reach UK.
Time scale to be agreed with
Hong Kong: Guarantee of movement important: only 5,384 refugees have left Hong Kong so far in 1979.
Hong Kong
4. Hong Kong now has about a third of all boat refugees. have a fair share of the countries resettlement programmes.
It must
Places in Developing Countries
Flessed
The existing recipient countries have a limited capacity. Others including developing countries should contribute. that Argentina and Belize 7 are ready to make such an offer. UNHCR may need to call on states to provide funds to cubsidise
such settlement.
We are prepared to contribute to such a fund.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.