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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS BY MR KEITH BEST, MP
General
1.
Mr Best has shown great interest in refugee matters, and i s
Chairman of the British Refugee Council's Committee for Refugees
from Indo-China. He last visited refugee camps เก Hong Kong in
January 1985. Mr Best secured an Adjournment Debate on "South East
Asia (Refugees)" in May 1985, when he referred to several of the
matters raised in the present questions, and spoke in another
adjournment debate that month, on family reunion cases.
Question 31
2.
EXCO decided in 1984 to permit refugees in open centres to
join close relatives in closed centres (to allow moves in the
opposite direction would leave the system open to abuse and would
undermine the closed centre policy).
No application has been
refused.
Question 32
3.
This refers to the diplomatic campaign to encourage other
countries to accept more refugees in response to HMG' s relaxation of
the family reunion criteria, benefitting some 500 refugees in South
East Asia. Some countries have given firm positive responses, and
most others are still considering their position. We continue to
press
them both bilaterally and (through EC and UNHCR) multilaterally, and through UNHCR. We are instructing posts in
resettlement countries to urge their hosts to accept more Vietnamese
refugees from Hong Kong in the light of Hong Kong's recent decision
to absorb more refugees from the Hong Kong camps and to establish
ship rescue transit centre there.
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