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similar to
The other
posts
level UNHCR may now be thinking along lines
those described in paras 18-20 above.
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
25.
An international approach on these 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
resettlement in third
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
ma jor resettlement
other potential
countries
nor
resettlement countries will increase their assistance to
Hong Kong. Conversely, our experience in 1986 has been
limited UK resettlement initiative is a
stimulate others to do more to help.
that even
able
able to
26. Given the time that it is likely to take to resolve
K
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
What should these proposals
soon.
be?
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