(ii)
on 1 y) is not.
UNHCR, with strong backing from the Americans, have been
pressing Hong Kong to provide transit facilities for refugees
who are rescued at sea by ships flying the flag of
of a RASRO
member state (and who therefore have a guarantee of
but who for some reason are not actually
resettlement)
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resettled within the normal 90 day deadline.
Such cases
present difficulties because places of first asylum are under
refugees rescued under RASRO for
member states, in
no obligation to accommodate
any longer than 90 days: but
RASRO some
reach decisions
particular the US and France, often fail to
within this period about certain individual
individual cases,
cases, especially
those which fall outside their normal criteria.
(iii)
Hong Kong sees political difficulties in agreeing
to provide
such a "clearing House" for RASRO cases, but UNHCR and US
A sine qua non of Hong Kong agreement must be full
keen.
UNHCR funding
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