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Meanwhile, in cooperation
with the Hong Kong
Government and the office of the United Nations High
(UNHCR), we
are actively
countries also to take
Commissioner for
pressing other
Refugees
resettlement
additional numbers of refugees
still too early to assess the
from Hong Kong. It is
overall results of our
efforts; but there have been s ome encouraging
results
Australia, for example, has announced that
that it will
it will take
an additional 200 refugees from Hong Kong between
June 1986.
Turning now to Miss Dew's points about the camps in
Hong Kong, I would like to stress the size of the task
that Hong Kong has faced in caring for the 100,000
Vietname se refugees who have arrived in the territory
since 1975. None have been turned away. They have all
been granted temporary asylum by the Hong Kong Government
and accommodated in
camp s until resettlement places
overseas could be found for them. This is a considerable
achievement for such
small, overcrowded territory.
Hong Kong has also itself accepted some 14,500 displaced
Indo-Chinese for permanent settlement in the territory.
Initially, all Vietnamese refugees arriving in Hong
Kong were acommodated in open camp s run by UNHCR in
cooperation with various voluntary agencies. Since July
1982, in order to discourage others in Vietnam from
travelling to Hong Kong despite their declining prospects
resettlement elsewhere, newly arriving
have been placed in closed camps, from which
of
permanent
refugees
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