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Americans becoming cassy (see letter behind doo). We need to make it clear that
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Mr Galsworthy
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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: (SPECIAL ASSISTANT, BUREAU FOR DEPARTMENT) MONDAY, 13 OCTOBER 1985
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MEETING WITH MR VAN EGMOND REFUGEE PROGRAMS, Us
STATE
I attended part of this meeting, organised by SEAD. Mr Van Egmond was visiting London
on his way back to Washington from Geneva, where he had been attending the UNHCR Executive Committee meeting. He made the following points on Hong Kong.
Resettlement
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tak e more but their
refugees decision
The Americans welcomed our decision to from Hong Kong. They wantd to be helpful, would probably depend partly on how many refugees we we re prepared to take in addition to the 500; and on Hong Kong's willingness to absorb some of the refugees. They would need more information on these points before reaching a decision, and would be pressing us for details.
3.
A "Blue Ribbon Panel" would be visiting South East Asia, including Hong Kong in November to look into refugee problems. (I understood from Mr Van Egmond that this was to s ome extent comparable to a Parliamentary Select Committee in the UK). Their report would be unlikely to be ready before the end of the year. The US's decision on resettlement from Hong Kong might be deferred to await this.
RASRO
4.
In Geneva, Mr Van Egmond and UNHCR officials (Feldmann and Cooper) had discussed with Mr Woodhouse a proposal by UNHCR that
Thalbea Hong Kong should provide a transit centre for refugee's rescued at
"but sea under the RASRO scheme who had not been resettled within the maximum 90 day period specified under the scheme. (We have since
received details of this conversation in
a telex from Mr Woodhouse.) The Americans were very much in favour of this
idea, and hoped
hoped we would encourage Hong Kong
to agree to it. Mr Van Egmond suggested we might discuss it with Mr Woodhouse on
18 October. I said we could of course discuss
it,
but that I
could not predict how the Hong Kong Government would react to the
idea.
Chria Wörtha
O Walker (Ms)
Hong Kong Department
WH 312
233 3988
16 October 1985
CC Mr Nash, SEAD
Mr Wildash, UND
"Mr Adams, Geneva
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