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11.

(Defensive). Present circumstances do not make it

possible to discontinue the closed camp policy

currently being followed in Hong Kong. The decline

since 1982 in the rate at which Vietnamese have arrived

in Hong Kong, compared with that for the South-East

Asian region as a whole, is almost certainly due to the

closed camp policy. To abandon the policy would cause

a sharp rise in the level of arrivals, and consequently

an unmanageable rise in the camp population in Hong

Kong.

TACTICS

12. Work for a consensus omnibus resolution in the

traditional mould (see Resolution 39/140 (Ref C) ).

BACKGROUND

History

of 3 years.

13. UNHCR was originally set up in 1951 for a period

Since then, its mandate has been extended

for five-year periods; it next expires on 31 December

1988.

Mr Poul Hartling has been High Commissioner

since 1978. His term of office expires this year.