TNAG-1536-FCO40-2100-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-third-countri-1986 — Page 170

ANADA

UNCLASSIFIED

STATE

101779/03

PORTUGAL

NMARK

SPAIN

FINIAND

SWEDEN

FRANCE

SWITZERLAND

GERMANY (FRG)

TURKEY

JAPAN

UNITED KINGDOM

LAST YEAR'S WORLD REFUGEE REPORT GIVES STATISTICS FOR CALENDAR YEARS 1983 AND 1984. THIS YEAR'S REPORT WILL CONTAIN STATISTICS FOR CY 1985. PCSTS IN ABOVE CCUNTRIES (AND ANY OTHER OECD POSTS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT REFUGEE OR ASYLEE INFLOWS OVER THE PAST YEAR) ARE ASKED TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON THEIR HOST COUNTRIES:

(1) THE NUMBER AND NATIONALITY OF REFUGEES PERMANENTLY RESETTLED DURING CY 1985.

(2)

THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES RESETTLED FROM HOST COUNTRY TO THIRD COUNTRIES, LISTED BY NATIONALITY OF REFUGEES AND COUNTRY OF RESETTLEMENT DURING CY 1985.

C. ASYLUM SEEKERS IN OECD COUNTRIES. PERSONS WHO ENTER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AS STUDENTS, WORKERS, OR TOURISTS AND SUBSEQUENTLY REQUEST POLITICAL ASYLUM ARE A GROWING PROELEM, ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN EUROPE, CANADA AND THE U.S. STATISTICS ON THESE SO-CALLED ASYLUM SEEKERS WERE INCLUDED IN LAST YEAR'S WORLD REFUGEE REPORT (SEE TABLES ON PP. 109-120). WE WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE THESE FIGURES FOR CY 1985. OECD POSTS ARE REQUESTED TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS FOR THEIR HOST COUNTRIES:

(1) THE NUMBER OF NEW ASYLUM APPLICANTS, BY COUNTRY CF ORIGIN, IN CY 1985 (AS IN TABLES VI.B.1 AND P.2).

......(2). THE NUMBER OF PERSONS GRANTED ASYLUM, BY COUNTRY OF.

CRIGIN, IN CI 1985 (SEE TABLES VI.A.1 AND VIII).

(3)

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ASYLUM APPLICATIONS PENDING BY CCUNTRY OF ORIGIN, AS OF THE END OF CY 1985 (THIS INFORMATION WAS NOT IN LAST YEAR'S WORLD REFUGEE REPORT).

8.

THIS IS AN UNCLASSIFIED REPORT AND ALL MATERIAL SUBMITTED BY POSTS FCR INCLUSION IN IT SHOULD BE UNCIASSIFIED. HOWEVER, POSTS MAY PROVIDE CLASSIFIED BACKGROUND MATERIAL IN SEPARATE CLASSIFIED CABLES. (2243T) SHULTZ

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STATE 101779/04