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thinking
along along lines
18-20 above.
similar to
The other
posts
level UNHCR may now be
those described in paras
consulted agree generally with what is proposed, while recognising the substantial obstacles that remain in the
way of
any, eventual approach to the Vietnamese on this
issue.
24. If Ministers accepted the principle of the action
outlined above we would submit further, outlining the
details of our proposed approach to UNHCR and other
governments, in due course.
Need for Further Resettlement in the UK
resettlement in third
25. An international approach on these lines
lines will take
time to coordinate and may well not in the end be feasible.
The only option for lessening Hong Kong's problem which
offers immediate prospects of progress appears to be
continued action to maximise
countries.
It has been our experience, between the exhaustion of the first UK quota for Hong Kong in 1982 and
the SCORRI report in 1985, that in the absence of
significant UK action to resettle refugees neither the
other potential
countries
nor
ma jor resettlement
resettlement countries will increase their assistance to
Hong Kong. Conversely, our experience in 1986 has been
that even a limited UK resettlement initiative is able to
stimulate others to do more to help.
26. Given the time that it
it is likely to take to resolve
the matter of further resettlement in UK and the need to
avoid a gap between the end of the "SCORRI" intake and the
start of any further programme any proposals for UK
resettlement that we decide to put to the Home Office
should be put to them soon.
What should these proposals
be?
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