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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

M M Hall Esq THE HAGUE

REC

Telephone 01233 3988

Your reference

DKK 2136

PEGISTRY

Our reference

НКК 243/9

Date

14 October 1986

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- 5 NOV 1986

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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: RESETTLEMENT IN THE NETHERLANDS

1.

a

copy of a

telex

("Confidential"

I attach but not terms,

in HMG's) recording a conversation between

at (HKG) and Michel den Hond, Woodhouse (HKG) Executive Committee

UNHCR's

meeting in lead in

in HKG

Geneva.

the recent UNHCR

that Given

the their allocating

refugee

Dutch follow places there is no direct role for you to play on this, but it would be useful to know whether their decision to double

intake has passed

all the passed through all

in

total 1987 their bureaucratic hoops.

2.

For your

information only,

it is

doubt ful

whether

UNHCR will endorse" Hong Kong in the positive way that it did in 1985,

a in 1985, unless the UK announces its agreement to

This further intake of Vietnamese Refugees from Hong Kong. is under active consideration, as we say.

184-

cc: J Wilson Esq

Cve

David

}

DJ G Barton

Hong Kong Department

Hong Kong Government Office BRUSSELS

K J Woodhouse Esq Government Secretariat HONG KONG

is Juha Yapo Cells

bewing up.

ме

you're ॐ

bustle is!

از آمی

Regards to Joun, et al.