TNAG-1276-FCO40-1626-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 58

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28 September 1983

Mr. K.L. Stumpf, CBE, JP Hong Kong Christian Service, Migration Services Department 33 Granville Road, Kowloon,

Hong Kong.

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Thank you for your letter of 8 September about a Canadian proposal for privately sponsored resettlement of Vietnamese refugees. I believe you wrote similarly to Wilfred Hyde at the Home Office and Rex Browning at the ODA, on whose behalf I have been asked to coordinate a reply to you.

The Canadian 'Project 5000', of which we had not previously heard, seems a worthwhile one, the more so if it will alleviate the serious Hong Kong refugee problem. We naturally hope that the Canadian project will make progress and so help contribute to a long-term solution.

You will appreciate that the British Government are not able to allocate funds for resettlement of refugees in Canada. Our available refugee relief resources are channelled through the UNHCR, other international organisations such as the Red Cross, and UK voluntary agencies operating in this country and overseas. Nevertheless, I have had some enquiries made on your behalf. I understand that the Asia Committee of the British Refugee Council has considered a letter which you also wrote to Lord Ennals on this subject. The Council will no doubt write to you if any of their member organisations is in a position to help.

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W.J. Adams

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R.A. Browning, Esq., ODA.

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