TNAG-1276-FCO40-1626-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-1983 — Page 69

HOFO 019/17

RR HONGAND

GR 200

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Regan carry to

серу

номе

SEAD (Mr Legal Home

+ UND (Mr Pente)

then pr. 243/2 Gesettlement).

HKK 243

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

2 1 SEP 1983

D.

7

FM HONG KONG 1704402 SEP 83

MyWally

NO DISTRIBUTION

TELEGRAM

WAS NOT ALLANCED

TO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON

TELEGRAM NUMBER 1359 OF 17 SEPTEMBER

FOR HELEN YU FROM LEEKS.

YOUR TELCX OF 14 SEPTEMBER: VRS IN HONG KONG.

136

+

[T + 2 TO HEGO LON

HKD

Wh103

1. HAVE RE-EXAMINED THE MINUTES OF THE ASHA COMMITTEE MEETING

HELD ON 18 MAY (THE LAST WE HAVE RECEIVED). SEE LITTLE POINT

*IN YOUR PUSHING DIRECTLY FOR A FURTHER UK QUOTA AT THIS MEETING, ALTHOUGH SUCH A MOVE WOULD OBVIOUSLY HELP US WITH OTHER

RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES.

2. AN OBVIOUS AREA WHERE WE CAN BE HELPED WOULD BE TO PUSH FOR THE ADMISSION TO UK OF SPECIAL GROUPS, OF WHICH UNACCOMPANIED MINORS REMAIN A VERY CONSPICUOUS ONE. JOYCE PEARCE OF OCKENDEN RECENTLY WROTE TO KARL STUMPF EXPRESSING AN INTEREST IN THESE AND JANIE THOMAS OF SCF HAS BEEN VISITING MINORS IN CAMPS HERE LAST WEEK. THE AMERICANS ARE CURRENTLY REVIEWING MINORS AS A SPECIMAL GROUP AND OF 348 CASES IN HONG KONG, UNHCR HAS PASSED 245 TO THEM, OF WHICH THEY HAVE ACCEPTED 191 AND REFUSED 4. THEY ARE STALL CONSIDERING THE OTHER 50. THOSE 4 REFUSED BY THE USA, OR THOSE 103 NOT CONSIDERED BY THEM, HAVE NO PROSPECTS OF GOING ANYWHERE ELSE. N SOME CASES THEIR PARENTS ARE STILL LN VIETNAM, WHILE IN OTHERS THEY CANNOT EVEN BE TRACED. WC WHALL TRY TO PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION MAN ANSWER TO PEARCE'S QUERY, BUT ACCEPTANCE BY THE UK OF ANY OF THESE CASES ON SPECIAL HUMANITARMAN GROUNDS WOULD BOTH HELP US 4 A PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT AREA AND MAINTAIN SOME FLEXIBILITY ON THE QUESTION OF VR ADMISIONS TO UK.

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