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FCO'S TELNO 1979 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: US POLICY
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YOU MAY WISH TO ADD TO TUR THAT THE PROPOPTION OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES FROM HONG KONG OUT OF THE TOTAL US VIETNAMESE REFUGEE INTAKE HAS BEEN DECLINING DRAMATICALLY. IN 1981, 14.6 PER CENT OF THE US INTAKE OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES CAME FROM HONG KONG SEMICOLON IN 1982 THE FIGURE WAS 17.5 PER CENT SEMICOLON IN 1983 IT HAD
REDUCED TO 6.7 PER CENT SEMICOLON LAST YEAR IT HAD REDUCED FURTHER
TO 3.8 PER CENT.
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2. NOT ONLY IS HONG KONG NOT (NOT) GETTING A FAIR DEAL FROM
RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES, BUT IT IS RECEIVING LESS PRIORITY FROM
THE US.
3. EFFORTS BY THE US IN PARTICULAR TO REDUCE OUR OPEN CENTRE
REFUGEE POPULATION HAVE BEEN CONSIDERABLE AND ARE VERY MUCH
APPRECIATED. BUT THESE EFFORTS ARE WITHIN THE US QUOTA. THERE HAS BEEN NO (NO) INDICATION OF ANY INCREASE IN RESPONSE TO HIG'S
INITIATIVE, DESPITE THE POSITIVE RESPONSE FROM AUSTRALIA, CANADA, FINLAND, NORWAY AND NEW ZEALAND AND THE STRONG INDICATIONS FROM DENMARK, SWEDEN AND THE NETHERLANDS.
4. YOU MAY BE AWARE THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR THE US ALLOCATED TO
HONG KONG UNUSED' RESETTLEMENT PLACES FROM ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION.
WE THINK THAT THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN RESPONSE TO APPEALS WHICH WE HAD MADE. WHEN WOODHOUSE WAS IN WASHINGTON HE CLARIFIED WITH PUPCELL
THAT THIS PRINCIPLE COULD BE REPEATED. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THAILAND,
MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY MEETING THEIR US
RESETTLEMENT TARGETS. COULD THIS BE RE-DIRECTED TO HONG KONG?
THIS WOULD MEAN NO (NO) INCREASE IN THE OVERALL INTAKE TO THE US
AND NO (NO) CHANGE IN THE ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE PEFUGEES.
5. WE HOPE TO BE IN A POSITION TO SAY SOMETHING POSITIVE ABOUT THE
PASRO TRANSIT CENTRE (IN WHICH THE US HAS A CONSIDERABLE INTEREST)
IN JANUARY.
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