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CONFIDENTIAL #2

機密

Recommendations contained in the SCORRI report

ANNEX A

(a) family reunion criteria should be relaxed in

zespect of Vietnamese in camps in countries of temporary asylum;

(b)

(c)

(a)

(e)

(3) closed camps should be abolished and their inmates transferred to open camps; and

(11)

if the closed camps are not abolished the FCO should put on record immediately the circumstances in which it would withdrew its sanction from the closed camps policy;

more should be done to prepare the inhabitants of Hong Kong's refugee camps for life after they are resettled, especially through training and upgrading of skills;

a considerable degree of Ministerial discretion should be retained in the granting of family reunion applications;

(1)

(14)

Britain's willingness to relax its family reunion criteria for Vietnamese in camps in countries of temporary asylum should be used as a bargaining counter to attract offers of additional resettlement places from those countries;

the aim of such negotiations should be to reduce drastically the size of long Kong's Vietnamese population and to resettle all those whose stay in camps has been 'prolonged;

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