T C Stitt Esq SEAD FCO
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19 OCT 1979
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INDO/CHINESE REFUGEES
1.
After a meeting between Chancellor Schmidt and the Minister- Presidents of the Länder on 28 September it was announced that the FRG was willing to increase its intake of Vietnamese refugees from the present figure of 13,000 to a total of about 20,000.
2. It has taken a little time to establish what effect this decision will actually have. Frau Dr Heide-B18ch, the desk officer in the Auswärtiges Amt dealing with refugee resettlement questions, told me today that the details of how the extra 7,000 places would be allocated still had to be worked out by the Länder governments themselves; the decision taken by the Minister-Presidents had been one of principle. This process would probably take some time and there was likely to be a certain amount of wheeling and dealing between the Länder. She had already heard, for example, that Baden-Würtemberg, which voluntarily doubled its quota this year, was unlikely to agree to take any more refugees. In any case, reception facilities for the refugees were now overloaded; there was unlikely to be room for many more refugees to come to the FRG before 1980.
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Stewart
J S Laing Esq, WED, FCO
UND, FCO
S G Eldon
I C Orr Esq, Assistant Political Adviser, Hong Kong, UKMIS Geneva
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