c)
Cost of resettling 20,000 Indo-Chinese
in the UK and integrating 14,500
in Hong Kong
Output Evaluation
9.
In the 7 years since its inception, the UK policy of
assistance to Indo-Chinese refugees has achieved a high
degree of success in terms of its interim and subsidiary
objectives, as discussed below. The ultimate objectives
are still some way off, although the residual population
of refugees still in camps in Thailand (excluding the
displaced Cambodians) is now down to approximately 25%
of the total number of Indo-Chinese who have sought
asylum there since 1975. The political pressures remain
on Vietnam to amend its policies of internal repression,
economic mismanagement and external aggression.
Vietnam
and its client government in Phnom Penh remain cut off
from the benefits of Western assistance and technological
expertise (the UK has a policy of no aid to Vietnam,
consistent with its assistance to the Cambodian resis-
tance forces ). The growing strength of, and popular
Should save to
De underling support for, the resistance groups we underlin
Vietnam the need
to date.
to
for a review of its disastrous policies
10. As for the interim objectives discussed in para-
graph 5 above:
a) the UK has taken some 20,000 Indo-Chinese refugees for
resettlement.
Than
en This number stretched the UK's
resources, but the refugees are now becoming better in-
tegrated into UK society.
Hong Kong has absorbed some
/14,500
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