TNAG-1275-FCO40-1625-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 198

17 December 1982

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C Sir Patrick Wall (Haltemprice): To ask the Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will approach the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and request him to speed up the re- settlement of Vietnamese refugees now in Hong Kong.

No Wil

- 243/1

MR MALCOLM RIFKIND

We shall continue to take every suitable opportunity to draw the attention both of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and of countries of possible resettlement, to the numbers of refugees remaining in Hong Kong. For example, our Permanent Representative in Geneva made an urgent appeal on 12 October in his statement to this year's meeting of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.