TNAG-1542-FCO40-2106-United-Nations-High-Commissioner-for-Refugees-(UNHCR)-Execut-1986 — Page 311

My

first

visit

as

United Nations

High

Commissioner for Refugees to Hong Kong and three

the region

other

in countries

opportunity

not only to

knowledge

of the current

me

an

gave

gain a first hand refugee situation

in

these countries, but also to assess the long-term

implication

and

prospects

problem which is a

common

especially

appreciated

the

resolving for

concern for

for us all. I

opportunity

the

I

had

during our meeting to benefit from your views on I also had an

different

Hong Kong's refugee situation.

open

and

exhaustive

on discussion

aspects of the Hong Kong refugee problem with Mr. Gordon Mortimer, Acting Secretary for

Acting Secretary for Security, and his colleague, Mr. Ken Woodhouse.

My visit to the four countries convinced me that the Indochinese Our search

for

a

refugee problem

solution to

must be in the wider regional

perspective. I hope that in the coming months all the concerned governments and UNHCR will have the chance to consider new approaches

responding to the

refugee problem

for

that

the

South-East Asia region has been facing since the

mid-1970's.

While

this

policies,

search

especially

continues,

the

current

resettlement, must

be

maintained. As regards Hong Kong,

a favourable

decision by the Government of the United Kingdom

to

continue

the resettlement

of Vietnamese