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15 July 1980 i) Mr Morice to

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: RESETTLEMENT IN THE FRG

1.

see Chief Clerk's letter of 21/7 to Sie Ő wright.

The Auswärtiges Amt told me yesterday that, as a result of a meeting between Chancellor Schmidt and the Minister- Presidents of the Länder at the end of June, it had been decided to increase the FRG's off-take of South East Asian Refugees to 26,000, the current quota of 20,000 places being practically exhausted. Of the 6,000 new places 2,000 will be reserved for refugees picked up by FRG ships (including the Cap Anamur) and the remainder (with the exception of a very few hardship cases) for close (ie husband and wife or parents and children) family reunion cases.

2. This is not particularly good news for Hong Kong

since there are comparatively few family reunion cases in the

territory. It will not, for the reasons given in my letter of

today's date to Ian Orr (not copied to all), be easy to persuade

the Germans to accord the territory priority treatment.

In order that we can consider what (if anything) more we

can do it would, however, be useful to know whether a decision

Phương

has yet been taken on an approach to Herr Genscher on this question

by the Secretary of State (Hong Kong telno 807 refers).

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TC S Stitt, Esq, SEAD, FCO

J S Laing Esq, WED, FCÓ

I C Orr Esq, Asst Political Adviser,

UKMis Geneva

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BMG Berlin

Hong Kong

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Stewart Aldon

S G Eldon