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DENMARK

At the UNHCR

resettlement

meeting in Geneva in January the

Danish representative indicated that Denmark's quota of 250 refugees

for 1986 would be directed mainly towards Indo-Chinese and

"non-Bahai" Iranians. The Danish Government i s considering a list

of 25 family reunion cases in Hong Kong and has indicated that i t

would welcome UNHCR advice on these.

FINLAND

The Finnish representative at last month's UNHCR resettlement

meeting announced а mission to Hong Kong and Indonesia in February

would seek to fill Finland's 1987 regional quota of 100, which

includes 10 disabled cases.

FRANCE

French Ministers

about accepting mo re

reunion cases to be

in Hong Kong.

and senior officials have been pessimistic

refugees, but have agreed to examine family

submitted through the French Consulate-General

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

The Federal Government is unable to respond

respond quickly on refugee

matters, which are within the competence of the Länder. The latter

have agreed that 32 Hong Kong family reunion cases could considered out of a much larger number submitted by UNHCR.

be

Of the

32, 16 ei ther have left for third countries ог have married

thereby become ineligible, and

settle in the Federal Republic.

that their applications may be

processing the other two.

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and

have already gained permission to

The Germans await details of 10 SO

processed, and presumably are n ow