TNAG-1801-FCO40-2561-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-resettlement-in-the-UK-1988 — Page 167

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him what is proposed. attached.

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A draft letter for this purpose is

9.

A separate, but related issue which has been raised from time to time is the question of the phasing of the arrivals from Hong Kong There have been suggestions both from the Hong Kong Government and from UNHCR that we should increase the rate of arrivals so as to ensure that all 468 have arrived within a year. The phasing over 2 years was speoltically designed to take into account the resource implications both for the voluntary agencies in Hong Kong and here and for local authorities. While UNHCR may say that they are able to process doce chan 20 per month we heliava that it would be foolish to place au ingceased burten on the voluntary agencies In authorities at a time when the number of syn

19 under the Ordazly Duparture Programme is increasing (saa Ar Flsahar's submission - 19 JambPALLY) - marit la ca-opening this

informed UNHCR.

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that we should do so by applying the existing criteria, moving forward the cut-off date as recnesALY?

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that we should not re-open the question of phasing.

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Ir Ministara agree the Home Secretary will wish to write to thu boda.gn Bacretary as in the ashashed draft.

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