High refugee ratio noted
PA Wellington New Zealand has one of the highest, ratios of IndoChinese refugees in relation to total population, says the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office. In its June statement on resettlement, the office says the emphasis in the New Zealand refugee intake is on Indo-Chinese refugees.
Since 1975 a total of 5036 had been admitted, the majority of them boat people (2830), but also some Khmers (1630) and a limited number of Laotians. New Zealand occasionally, under special circumstances, admitted refugees from other areas and “in this regard its refugee admission policy, although limited, is quite flexible,” the office said.
Resettlement was not the ideal durable solution for the majority of refugees, it said. The report noted that the number of Vietnamese boat people awaiting resettlement had remained virtu-
ally unchanged since 1981, at an average of 44,000 people. In April this year there were 74,476 Khmer refugees, in Thailand, some entering their fifth year in camps, as. well as 75,923 Laotians.
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