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redevelopment schemes, either alone or
The Provisional
owners.
in partnership with existing
Board of the Corporation was formed in
September and the planning of the first urban renewal projects is
already underway. A
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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES,
76.
the
During 1986 major efforts were made to speed u p
resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in camps in Hong Kong.
Following the decision by Her Majesty's Government in September 1985 to accept some 500 refugees from Hong Kong for family reunion in the
United Kingdom under relaxed criteria, a diplomatic campaign was
mounted by Her Majesty's Government, supported by the Hong Kong
Government, to persuade other countries to offer more resettlement
places to Hong Kong
Many countries responded possitively,
including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands New Zealand, Norway and Sweden.
its part the Hong Kong refugees of Chinese origin for local settlement. <Pa<etio)
77.
In
Government decided to
the made by
For
accept 250
more
to a response
request
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, the Hong Kong Government also agreed, in
February 1986, to establish a transit centre in Hong Kong, to help
facilitate the resettlement of refugees rescued at sea under the
International Rescue at Sea Resettlement Offers scheme. <Pa celic)
arrivals
in
78. However,
However, eleven years after the end of the war in Vietnam there is still no durable solution in sight to the problem of the
continuing exodus of refugees. During 1986 the number of Vietnamese
This was refugees arriving in Hong Kong doubled compared with 1985.
the first time that the rate of
the territory had
increased since the implementation of the closed centre policy in
the benefit from an improved rate of.
resettlement in 1986 was thus cancelled out by the large increase in
the number of
arrivals new
in Hong Kong. Further, although 3,816 refugees were resettled from Hong Kong in 1986 this level is
unlikely to be maintained in 1987.
of efforts
Her Majesty's
Government and the Hong Kong Government resettlement thus brought a
July
1982.
Much of
The
some
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