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SVIETNAMESE REFUGEES
By Judy Stowe (5)
The British Government has today (September 26th, 1430 851) issued a White Paper outlining 145 policy on the resettlement of Vietnamese refugees. Here's a report on its contents by Judy Stowe of the BBC Far Eastern Service.
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The White Paper constatutes the British Government's official
response to a report published in April this year criticising several
aspects of ats policy towards Vietnamese refugees.
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Britain has accepted for criticism was that in the past three years,
resettlement only a handful of the ten-thousand and more Vietnamese
netugees currently residing in closed camps an Hong Kong.
report suggested that af Brataan were to agree to resettle more of
these refugees, it would encourage other countries to do likewise,
the burden Hong Kong as having to bear an looking after
these Vietnamese, The British Government has now accepted this
recommendat).on. In its White Paper published today, it agrees to
accept for resettlement five-hundred Vietnamese retugees who already
Most of these refugees are living an
alleviating
have relativAS an Brataɔn.
Tew WILL come from other camps in South
camps in Hong Kong, but a
East AS13. Processing of these cases will start immediately and the
Kritish Government has made it clear that it will not consider for
resettlement under this arrangement any Vietnamese refugees who may
arrive
in Hong Kong in the future. Indeed, the British Government 15
50 anxious to discourage retugees from leaving Vietnam that it has
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