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Thank you for your letter of 3 December about
Indo-Chinese refugees in South East Asia. I welcome
this opportunity to sum up our Government's
position on this subject which continues to cause
us and other countries great concern.
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Since 1975 we have taken some twelve and a half
thousand refugees from Indo-China, and over ten
thousand of them since the Geneva Conference
in July 1979. The resettlement programme is going
ahead steadily, but it would be wrong to conceal the
fact that we are facing practical difficulties,
particularly over housing and employment for
refugees. Every effort is naturally made by
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all concerned to overcome these difficulties and
our people have taken advantage of various
opportunities to exchange notes with yours.
we have not yet fulfilled our quota of 10,000
from Hong Kong, and may not be able to do so for
some months. A further factor which must be
kept in mind is the need to provide for 'second
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