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Austrian authorities

for family reunion.

prepared to examine individual requests

Austrian Consul General in Hong Kong

instructed to liaise with HKG (Vienna telno 120, 5.11.85, folio

366)

Feldmann:

UNHCR will follow up family reunion offer (Letter

Walker/Leeks, 14.11.85, folio 431)

ICELAND

MFA took note and undertook

(mainly Icelandic Red Cross)

to press appropriate organisations

to help

" The

Icelanders realise

that they could probably

try

a little harder" (Reykjavik

telno

81, 10.10.85, folio 280)

SPAIN

MFA agreed to look in to

matter but did not comment (Madrid

telno 702, 17.10.85, folio 298)

Formal reply: unable to accept any refugees from Hong Kong.

(Indo-Chinese whom they accepted in 1980

have not fitted in to

(Madrid Telno 785,

Spanish society well: "negative experience".)

22.11.85, folio 414)

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