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policy provided the resources of land

available. The Hong Kong Government

how they can provide refugees with

message of the closed centre

and capital investment were

are now considering further

skills sought by resettlement countries.

The calling of another

(iii)

Indo-Chinese refugees.

international

conference on

There are two problems about this. The first is that we are not at

present able to take an initiative given our low resettlement rate.

The second is

that given that the Vietnamese refugee problem taken

as a whole is now much less acute than it was

in 1979, we see little

prospect that a call for a conference would receive interest and

support

from

other

countries

involved.

Potential refugee

resettlement countries are heavily preoccupied with other more

immediate problems, notably

famine in Africa and the exodus

the

*

from Afghanistan.

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