Meanwhile,
in
cooperation
DSR 11C
with the Hong Kong
Government and the office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
pressing other
resettlement
(UNHCR), we
are actively
countries also to take
additional numbers of refugees from Hong Kong. It is
encouraging
of our
results
A
still too early to assess the overall results
efforts; but there have been some
Australia, for example, has announced that it will take
an additional 200 refugees from Hong Kong between now and
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.
achievement for
such a small,
This is a considerable
overcrowded territory.
Hong Kong has also
also itself accepted some 14,500 displaced
Indo-Chinese for permanent settlement in the territory.
Initially, all Vietnamese
Vietnamese refugees arriving in Hong
Kong we re 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
of permanent resettlement elsewhere,
refugees have been placed in closed
newly arriving
camps, from which
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