TNAG-1610-FCO40-22132-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1987 — Page 125

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Vietnamese Refugees

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We also have a continuing, indeed a growing, problem in coping with refugees from Vietnam. understandably a matter of great concern to our community that this problem, which reached dramatic proportions in 1979, is still with us. The number of refugees arriving, from Vietnam so far this year has increased by 38% over

period same

The number leaving for per cent resettlement has declined by 47%. Those statistics tell

their Own stories.

is a most unsatisfactory

the

in 1986.

It

per cent

situation.

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the

British

pressing

the

refugees from Hong

have become very

accept. Most now

have close family

With the continuing help of Government and of the United Nations High Commissioner

for Refugees, who have been vigorously seeking more

places on Our behalf, we will go on

resettlement countries to take more

Kong.

But resettlement countries

selective in choosing whom they will

insist that those they take should

connections with Vietnamese already settled in their

countries. This makes it very difficult to resettle many

of our refugees. We have a particular problem in that an

increasing number of the arrivals here are ethnic

Vietnamese from North Vietnam who have no connections in

/countries