expenditure on relief and repatriation in SE Asia
(£12.5m);
(ii) expenditure on resettlement of 20,000 refugees in
the cost of accounolatey or absorbing m) and 14,500 in Hong Kong (£)
UK (£
Us $108m
m);
M
(iii) political support: staffing and related costs in
FCO Diplomatic Wing and ODA and overseas posts
(British Embassy, Bangkok, South East Asia
Sion
Development Division, Bangkok, UK Misasons to the
United Nations in Geneva, Hong Kong, etc) (£ m).
ASSUMPTIONS OF UK POLICY
B.
These are:
(a) helping to solve the refugee problem will serve the
UK ultimate objection of a safe and prosperous
South-East Asia, consistent with UK interests;
conversely a failure to help by the UK and other
to
Western countries would have ledjan unacceptable
situation in human and security terms;
(b) an appropriate UK contribution would favourably
influence SE Asian and donor governments; conversely
risk
a failure to contribute would wish adverse
consequences;
(c) a UK contribution is consistent with its obligations
to assist refugees worldwide under the terms of its
ratification of the 1951 UN Convention relating to
the status of refugees and the 1967 Protocol;
/(a)
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