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୫ extremely concerned about the 10,000 Vietnamese refugees who are currently in camps in Hong Kong awaiting resettlement overseas. There are по Cambodian s in the camps. It has become very difficult in recent years to find resettlement places for the refugees. A s a result, they have been

As the Rev. Simon

camps.

spending increasingly

asingly long

long periods in

points out in his letter, Hong Kong is indeed very short of space,

100000 freed

refugees who have sought asylum there

dasy task. The Hong Kong Government,

and Caring for the 100000

and

L various

the

since 1975 has not been

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),

the

voluntary agencies working in Hong Kong have

provided all the refugees with accommodation

throughout the territory, not just one

nevertheless

eight

by

camps

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Father th

(Lin

suggested the Rev. Simon) food, medical, educational and welfare

Alertheless facilities. This is an admirable achievement. Both we and

the Hong Kong Government are however yery anxious to see the refugees

become v.

v. difmilf, but resettled as quickly as possible. We are currently making special efforts to achieve this.

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to

the Home Affairs

In September 1985, in response

Sub-Committee on Race Relations and Immigration (SCORRI)'s report "Refugees and Asylum with Special Reference to the Vietnamese" Her Majesty's Government published a White Paper announcing inter alia: These include:

(i) i decision to accept for

(ii)

have relatives in the UK

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resettlement some 500 refugees who who would normally fall outside

criteria for family reunion camps in Hong Kong, but a few

the Home Office's immigration

cases.

(Mostly of these

from

will come from other places of first asylum in South East soia); and

we have also apreed, subject &

depending on the willingness shown by other resettlement countries to respond to Hong Kong's needs, Her Majesty's Coverenment sie prepared to consider accepting further limited

willingness

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