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than from Hong Kong, and throughout the region Hong Kong has suffered because fewer and fewer people have been accepted from here, because rosettlement countries and UNHCR know that Hong Kong is not going to maltreat them, are we suffering from our own kindness?

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MR. HARTLING:

It is impossible for me to say such

a thing; first of all I think refugecs are not a burden, they are an asset. If you have refugees it is an asset. Now, here you have them only in transit, if you settled some and allowed them to stay I think they would be an asset to Hong Kong. When 1 look around in Hong Kong and I see what happens after the last time I came here, the changes, I can never have in my mouth words like, "Hong Kong has suffered because they have given trunsit centres now to 11,000 refugees", not at all!

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