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NORWAY
In 1986 Norway will increase its resettlement quota. Norway has acceded to the Twenty or More Plan starting in 1986. It continues to give financial support to the Refugee Processing Centre in Bataan, Philippines what's this? and to the ICH project concerning longstaying refugees.
BELGIUM
There is no annual resettlement quota in Belgium. Many asylum seekers continue to arrive on an irregular basis overwhelming the country's integration capacity. However, as in previous years, the Government will consider resettlement on case by case basis. Priority will continue to be given to family reunion, boat people rescued by Belgian ships and unaccompanied minors. Belgium has renewed its commitment to the TOM plan by providing an additional 25 places.
AUSTRALIA
The resettlement programme is active and large with no change foreseen in 1986. 10,000 places will be allocated to refugees and 2000 for the Special Humanitarian Programme in 1986. The Government wishes to keep its programme flexible and to accept refugees on a global basis, responding to emergencies wherever they may arise. Australia considers that voluntary repatriation and local integration should be more actively pursued. More coordination and burden-sharing are necessary in the resettlement area.
DENMARK
It has been decided that 250 places will be allocated for resettlement in 1986.
The allocation of the quota will be discussed in a meeting next week in Copenhagen.
FINLAND
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Finland does not have a long history of resettlement. December 1985 an annual quota of 100 places was announced. In February a mission will be undertaken to Indonesia and Hong Kong to select refugees for resettlement in Finland. Finland will also accept a certain number of disabled refugees under this quota.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
The FRG has agreed to accept a cumulative total of 37,700 Indochinese refugees of whom 30,000 have arrived. 4,500 persons in the SRV have been issued visas by the FRG but are currently awaiting exit visas from the Vietnamese authorities. The FRG will continue to give priority to family reunion cases and will also give consideration to refugees from the camps with no relatives in-the FRG. 200 places have been allocated for Rescue at Sea cases and within the framework of the DISERO scheme in addition to refugees rescued by FRG flag vessels. The Government will endeavour to meet its international obligations. However, due to the large foreign community already existing in the FRG and the high influx of asylum-seekers (73,000 in 1985) the country's capacity for absorption is
close to exhaustion.
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