TNAG-1536-FCO40-2100-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-third-countri-1986 — Page 87

jur referen

سويف

R.

HOME OFFICE

2518

се

.7

37

Covered

segairuld

T Trevan Esq

United Nations Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office LONDON SW1

Dear Tian

RASRO

HHM 243/9

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY

17 JUN 1986

ņ

6 June 1986

LY SEND

DESK OFFICER INDEX

PA

REGISTRY Action Taken!

IPA "VRs : Revellement

in UK" D

We have now obtained Ministers' views on the future of our participation in the

RASRO scheme.

It has been agreed that we will have a new quota of 150 for the year 1986/87 and that there will be no "carry-over" as rather laboriously suggested

by UNHCR Geneva.

I would be grateful if you could now inform UKMIS Geneva of the decision so that

It might be they have something to announce at the forthcoming informal Excom. sensible to suggest that, yet again, we have carefully considered the link between RASRO and DISERO and that we maintain our original and oft-stated view that we would not accept amalgamation of the two schemes.

Still on matters Vietnamese, the total of arrivals of the family reunion cases from Hong Kong under the SCORRI response is now at the 300 mark and we would anticipate that the present in-flow of about 40 persons per month will see us near completion of the 500 figure within the twelve months from last October. The secondary commitment by Ministers was that, in the light of the response from other States, we could consider taking a further small number We now have the totals in of other States' increased intakes and are considering how, and more

If importantly when, to go back to Ministers on this aspect of family reunion. UKMIS comes under pressure at the informal Excom, it might be best at this stage to be unspecific but to say that we have not lost sight of the further commitment and that our intention is to put to Ministers in due course proposals which will serve to fulfil our stated obligations.

/Other