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Question

34

4.

months,

The population

more

to

a

in the camp s

fall in the

due

higher rate of resettlement.

Question 35

has fallen over the last f ew

of number

arrivals

than

to a

5.

of

MPs and Peers continue take

a great interest in all aspects

"closed the

camps" policy. Lord Chitnis (Chairman of BRC' s Refugee Action) is visiting Hong Kong from 13-22 February, and there is a regular flow of correspondence with Parliamentarians.

Question 37 and 38

6.

Mr

Best

appears

that event

to be

on information seeking

Vietnamese some

refugees remained

what might

in Hong

happen in the

Kong in 1997. We expect that all will have been resettled by then;

even

if

s ome

their

status

should

not

be

affected

adversely, given the provisions in the Joint Declaration to maintain Hong Kong's

remained,

current legal and social

systems and China's

treatment of Vietnamese refugees to date.

generous