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FROM:
W G Ehrman
DATE: 8 November 1985
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SCORRI DIPLOMATIC INITIATIVE:
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RESPONSES BY RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES
It is now nearly six weeks since the White Paper in response to SCORRI was published (26 September). During that period we have
been pressing other resettlement countries as widely as possible to
respond to our initiative by taking additional numbers of refugees
from Hong Kong. In addition to approaches by our overseas posts to
their host governments, we have sought to raise the matter a t
bilateral and multilateral meetings wherever possible.
Executive Committee meeting of UNHCR (7 17 October )
key opportunity for this:
Mr Ken Woodhouse, the
Government official who attended the meeting as a member
delegation, lobbied other countries very actively and put Hong
Kong's case across most effectively. The Hong Kong Government have
also approached locally the consular representatives of the
countries concerned. What has been the response so far?
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a
The recent
provided
Hong Kong
of the UK
Main resettlement countries
2.
of
Of the three main resettlement countries (USA, Canada and
Australia), only Australia has so far come up with a concrete offer
resettlement places: it has pledged at least 200 (and possibly up
to 400) extra places for Hong Kong between now and June 1986. The
US and Canada have yet to announce their decisions. It seems likely
that the Americans will eventually announce some kind of increase in their offtake from Hong Kong, though this may be delayed longer than
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