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United Kingdom Mission

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CE Leeks Esq

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Your reference

Our reference UN 243/4

Date 20 December 1985

1495

Dear Clintonce

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: SCORRI REPORT

1.

74.

Please refer to the recent exchange of telegrams between the FCO, Hong Kong and UKMis Geneva, resting with your telegram number 1990 to Hong Kong.

2.

-(476)

I called on Klaus Feldmann (Head of Resettlement Section, UNHCR) on 17 December. (The meeting had been postponed from 16 December at his request so that Robert Cooper (Resettlement Section) and Chris Carpenter (South East Asia Section) could be present.).

3. I summarise below the information given to me by UNHCR at the meeting on the current position of the individual resettlement countries which I have put in the same order as in your telegram number 1990 to Hong Kong.

Netherlands

4.

Robert Cooper has just visited the Netherlands and had a meeting with representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice and the Social Affairs Department which handles the local integration of refugees. The Dutch Parliament has recommended to the Cabinet that the annual quota for all refugees be doubled from 250 to 500. 200 places could be allocated for Indo-Chinese refugees, of which 100 would be for Hong Kong, but the Dutch Government would wish to see Hong Kong reciprocate by accepting a monthly quota of refugees for local integration and by agreeing to provide RASRO transit facilities in Hong Kong.

5. Parliament's recommendations are subject to Cabinet approval. If approved, the Dutch would take a set number of refugees each month in view of their limited reception facilities and they may also decide to send a team to Hong Kong to interview specific cases. They have invited UNHCR to submit cases for their

consideration.

Denmark

6. The Danish Government has told UNHCR that they had 12 places in their end-of-year quota which they could give to Vietnamese refugees: of these 12 places 6 have since been given to Vietnamese refugees in South Africa (rescue at sea cases) and 6 will be allocated before 31 December 1985 to Hong Kong cases from the list of 30 presented to the Danish Government by UNHCR at the

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