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FURLIGE SECRETARY:
We want to resolve the problem
Ve have not set a deadline.
Our intention and hope la as quickly as we can in fact. said in the House, I think, earlier this year
able to manage the problem well before 1997,
deadline set in that respect.
As I
that we should be
but there is uc
MR. LESTER :
ccreening of boat people, which was introduced on 16 June last
Was this approved in advance of its year is approved by UNHCR.
implementatious
FOREIGF SECRETARY:
I think it was virtually contemporary,
as i recullect it.
MR. LESTER:
between
According to the Hong Kong Government's Memorandum,
June 1988 and March of 1989,
10,005 are still waiting.
alone could take more than 7 years,
1,008 people have been screened and At that rate, the screening pruc200
so have you any plans to speed
it up without decreasing the very vital ability of the process to recognise a genuine refugee?
No comments yet.
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