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FOR GEORGE HO FROM GENEVA (WOO) PLEASE PASS FOLLOWING TO JEAFFRESON, S FOR 5, FROM WOODHOUSE IN GENEVA (RPTD. HREO IN BRU, WAS, NY AND LDN (COPY FOR LEEKS IN FOO) AND CC ADAMS IN UKMIS GENEVA)
CONFIDENTIAL
EXCOM DISCUSSIONS: THE CANADIANS
I SPOKE TO ANTON JURKOVICH, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF REFUGEES AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE ON 11 OCTOBER. I PRESENTED THE HONG KONG CASE AND HANDED HIM THE SPEAKING NOTE.
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2. HE SAID THAT CANADA FEELS THAT RESETTLEMENT, AS A REFUGEE SOLUTION, SHOULD BE RECONSIDERED. IT IS NOT THE ANSWER TO HONG KONG'S OR ANYONE'S REFUGEE PROBLEM. SUGGESTED THAT REPATRIATION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, ESPECIALLY FOR NON-REFUGSES. I POINTED TO OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH THE FEW VOLUNTARY REPA RIATION CASES WHICH WE HAD IN HONG KONG. HE WAS AWARE OF THIS BUT SAID THAT A U.S. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE WHICH HAD VISITED HONG KONG IN AUGUST HAD RECOMMENDED VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION AS A SOLUTION.
3. I SAID THAT I WAS UNAWARE OF THIS BUT WOULD CHECK. GRATEFUL IF SINON GIT COULD CLARIFY AND SPEAK TO USC6.
4. JURKOVICH SAID THAT HONG KONG RECEIVES ABOUT 25 PERCENT OF CANADA'S REGIONAL OFF TAKE OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES. COUR FIGURES ARE 34.3 PERCENT IN 1982, 21.2 IN 1983, 30.2 IN 1984). HE SAID THAT FOR 1956 HE THOUGHT (THOUGHT) THAT THE REGIONAL OFF- TAKE TO CANADA MIGHT DECREASE
HONG KONG FIGURE WOULD REMAIN AT ABOUT PRESENT LEVELS. A FINAL DECISION WAS EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER,
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HE SAID AT SIR GEOFFREY HOWE HAD RAISED. HONG KONG'S REFUGEES WHEN HE WAS IN CANADA SEVERAL WEEKS AGO. JURKOVICH SAID THAT WHEREAS CANADA WELCOMED THE BRITISH INITIATIVE, IT THOUGHT THAT HE UK SHOULD TAKE THE LEAD IN THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT. HE SAID THAT THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES SHOULD PLAY A PART NO MATTER HOW SMALL.
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