TNAG-1530-FCO40-2094-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-general-1986 — Page 2

and I wouldn't like to waste your time in giving you an account of what you fully well know, so please start with your questions.

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QUESTION:

(by ?) I would just like to know

now that you have toured through all these camps, what are the

conditions and whether the conditions of the camps here in Hong

Kong as compared to elsewhere.

MR HOCKE:

Well, first I never like to really

embark into comparison, not for political reasons or other ones, but one has to recognise that the condition in every country are to a large extent different from another one and that whenever we suggest to authority some improvement or adjustment it is not based on what is going on in other parts of the world but we view it against the local background, taking into account the culture and the

environment and what the needs of the people are. So that, sorry to

say, I have no specific answer to your question. Yes?

QUESTION:

(by ?)

Mr Hocke, what did you think