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INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES.
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whore!
1. FOLLOWING HIS VISIT TO HANOI DE HAAN
We must be DEPUTY UN HIGH
IN BANGKOK CALLING
1573
COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES SPENT LAST WEEK
ON THAI GOVERNMENT FOREIGN EMBASSIES AND OTHER LOCAL ORGANISATIONS
INVOLVED IN REFUGEE MATTERS.
2. AT A LOCAL PRESS CONFERENCE (AND DURING SUBSEQUENT CALL ON AMBASSADOR) DE HAAN SAID THAT UNHCR HAD REACHED FIRM UNDERSTANDING
WITH VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT ON ORDERLY DEPARTURE OF FAMILY REUNION
CASES AND SPECIAL HUMANITARIAN CASES, IT WAS FURTHER AGREED THAT
NOVEMENT OF THESE REFUGEES SHOULD BEGIT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOR
MAXIMUM NUMBERS CONSONANT WITH AVAILABLE RESETTLEMENT OFFERS FROM ·
THIRD COUNTRIES. DE HAMI DID NOT
DE HAMI DID NOT COMIT HIMSELF TO ANY NUMBERS
AND THIS OBVIOUSLY DEPENDS UPON ATTITUDE OF US, FRANCE AND
OTHER COUNTRIES. HOWEVER
HOWEVER, HE STRESSED THAT THIS LEGAL MOVEMENT WILL NOT BE CARRIED OUT AT EXPENSE OF INDO-CHINESE
REFUGEES OUTSIDE VIETNAM KO ARE STILL SEEKING PERMANENT SETTLEMENT,
FURTHERMORE
3. WHILST THAI GOVERNMENT ARE NOT OPFOSED IN PRINCIPLE TO LEGAL MOVEMENT FROM VIETNAM THEY AFE MOST MIXIOUS THAT FIRST PRIORITY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO RESETTLEMENT OF LARGE (AND STILL RAPIDLY INCREASING) NUMBERS OF LACTIAN AND CAMBODIAN REFUGEES IN THAILAND. BOTH THAI GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL UNHCR OFFICIALS SERIOUSLY DOUBT WHETHER THIS LEGAL PROGRAMMU WILL STEK CONTINUING FLOW OF SMALL BOATS FROM KALAYSIA, THAILAND AND ELSEWHERE.
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