TNAG-1536-FCO40-2100-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-third-countri-1986 — Page 61

PRIAUE

нии 248,

RECEIVED

AFGANTRY

19 JUN 1986

DESK OFFICER INDEX

53

RESTRICTED

HKK 243/9

REGISTRY Action Taken

PA

FROM:

CO HUM, HKD

TE: 17 June 1986

Private Secretary.

Semvay 1

cc Dr Wilson

PS/Mr Renton

делен

Mr Fowler, NAD

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: RESETTLEMENT IN CANADA

Problem

1.

The Canadian High Commissioner has written to the Secretary of State to confirm that Canada has increased its

1986 resettlement quota for Vietnamese refugees in Hong

Kong by a further 450 places. How should we respond?

Recommendation

2.

I recommend that the Secretary of State reply along

the lines of the attached draft. NAD concur.

Background and Argument

3.

8,500 Vietnamese refugees are in Hong Kong awaiting

They are spending increasingly long periods

resettlement.

in Hong Kong because of diminishing resettlement prospects.

64% have been there for more than 3 years.

4.

The Government's reply last September to SCORRI's

Report on Vietnamese refugees stated that we would press

refugees from

other countries to accept more Vietnamese

Hong Kong

Kong in the light of our own decision to resettle a

RESTRICTED