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2-3 years.
The 1,000 would include relatives of Vietnamese already here and others with the potential quickly to become self-sufficient in the United Kingdom, together with some who have been in the camps for a long time and have not yet been accepted elsewhere.
Our intention is to ensure that additional refugees are resettled in a way that does not add to the heavy
pressures on urban areas where there are already considerable pressures on housing resources.
We shall now enter into immediate consultations with the
other resettlement governments and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We shall emphasise our view that this new resettlement commitment must be part of a wider international effort, and that we look to other
governments to match what we intend to do by taking substantial additional numbers of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong in their own countries. We have no doubt
that they will respond generously, as they have done in the past. In the light of the response that we receive we hope to be in a position soon to go ahead with our new
plans.
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