Unfortunately
Britain
DSR 11C
cannot solve this
problem
alone: it must be shared by the international community.
Since the White Paper was published, we have been
other resettlement countries, in
actively pressing
cooperation with the Hong Kong Government
also
and UNHCR
themselves to take additional refugees from Hong Kong.
It is stil1 too early to asses S the overall
results of
our
efforts, but
there have been
results.
Australia for
has example
some encouraging
announced that it
will take an additional 200 or more
refugees
from Hong
K on g
between now and July
1986.
I
like should
to
reassure
Ms Good rum that
it
is certainly not
our
intention that the refugees
in
Hong Kong should become
"forgotten people".
concerned about their plight and attach the greatest
On the contrary, we
are most
importance
to
finding
permanent
them as early as possible.
solutions
for
all of
I
am returning the enclosure to your letter,
a copy
of which has been retained for our
file.
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