TNAG-1425-FCO40-1908-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-general-1985 — Page 122

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The second is that given that

as

given that the Vietnamese refugee problem taken

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 heavily preoccupied with other more

famine in Africa and the exodus

resettlement

countries are

immediate problems, notably

the

from Afghanistan.

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