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solutions through incorporation in local communities of repatriation.
Nevertheless the idea is a positive and imaginative one, and might
be explored by UNHCR with any countries which are ready to offer
facilities or finance.
Processing Centres in Vietnam
9. The suggestion that potential emigrants from Vietnam should be
held in UNHCR camps in Vietnam until resettlement places are
available has been put forward by Rajaratnam (Singapore) in his
"six point plan" at the ASEAN Foreign Minister's Meeting in Bali.
(extract attached).
10. The idea is linked to the suggestion that the 30 May agreement
between Vietnam and UNHCR can be extended to cover all who might
wish to emigrate. (See separate brief). There is no indication so
far that the Vietnamese are ready to consider this option. But it
might be attractive to them as a Longer term source of foreign
exchange, and would in theory avoid the perils of "boat refugee
journeys". There are however serious objections to an idea which
could amount to the creation of UN concentration camps
concentration camps in Vietnam.
for those the Vietnamese consider politically undesirable, financed
indefinitely by the recipient states. We should oppose
proposal.
any such
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