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About the closed camps, we did not discuss them especially Let me clarify In my job, my duty, to ask governments/co give people asylum; Hong Kong has always done that, not to send them back against their will, what we call 'refoulement'.
Hong Kong has never 'refouler' never sent peopic back against their will. Thank you very much, it happens in the world but to the credit of Hong Kong, it has never happened here. But how do you treat them here? If you say "you must be there, you must be there, and you must be allowed to work, you must not be allowed to work", well that is a decision of the Government: we appeal to the Government to do it in as humanitarian a way as possible for them and not to harosu
or in any way make things impossible for the refugees, that is clear, but in many countrics they say - "You can stay, but you are not allowed to work", that is exactly what is happening in the closed camps here.
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May I follow up on the resettlement angle? You only mentioned the one argument - 'humanitarian grounds', Apparently that is not particularly effective when balanced against economic questions, at least it has not been in recent years. What other kinds of arguments or pressures can you bring to bear?
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I think only that one, and if you
say it is not going to bear well, it has gone a long way. поге than 104,000 refugees have been resettled alone from Hong Kong in the last four or five years. More than 104,000 have been resettleù, that is a great achievement. Still 11,000 are here, I know, but they have done a good job the resettlement countries, and in the years they have resettled in the world more than one million from the Indo-Chinese area. Well, that is an historic event really; I don't think I can ever say for economic reasons algo you should do that and that, I leave that to Foreign Einisters and politicians!
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