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IN 1972 UNICR NEEDED A FURTHER 50 MILLION DOLLARS FOR ITS SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAMME TO DEAL WITH THE PRESENT CASE LOAD ONLY, THIS WAS LIKELY TO GROW. THE STATES OF INDO-CHINA
OF THE REST OF SOUTHEAST ASIA AND BEYOND EACH HAD CLEAR RESPONS- IBILITIES. HE MADE A SPECIAL APPEAL TO LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES TO O OFFER MORE PLACES. HE WAS IN TOUCH WITH GOVERNMENTS ABOUT A POSSIBLE FUND FOR RESETTLEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
3. SONODA (JAPAN) RECALLED THE CONCERN EXPRESSED AT THE TOKYO SUMMIT AND IN BALI. THE PROBLEM AFFECTED THE PEACE AND STABILITY CF THE WHOLE REGION. BUT THIS WAS NOT THE PLACE TO DISCUSS POLITICS, THE OUTFLOW MUST BE RESTRAINED. JAPAN VALUED THE UNHCR/VIETNAM SEVEN POINT PLAN AS A STEP FORWARD. VIETNAM SHOULD MAKE EFFORTS TO COOPERATE WITH NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES TO ENSURE ORDERLY DEPARTURE. PEACE MUST BE RESTORED IN CAMBODIA. THAT IS WHY HE HAD PUT FORWARD A PLAN FOR A CAMBODIA CONFERENCE AT BALI, SONODA REPEATED THE JAPANESE OFFER TO INCREASE FROM 25 PER CENT TO 50 PER CENT ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE FINANCING OF UNHCR INFO-CHINESE OPERATIONS. HE SUPPORTED THE IDEA OF PROCESSING CENTRES AND JAPAN WOULD FINANCE HALF THE COSTS OF THE GALANG PROCESSING CENTRE. WITHOUT MENTIONING ANY NUMBER- FOR RESETTLEMENT PLACES, HE SAID JAPAN HAD A TARGET FIGURE WHICH IT WOULD RAISE, IT WOULD ALSO ALLOW TEMPORARY LANDINGS OF REFUGEES WITHOUT THIRD PARTY GUARANTEES, EVEN IF FIRST SCHEDULED PORT OF CALL WAS NOT JAPANESE. JAPAN WAS PREPARED TO GIVE BILATERAL ASSISTANCE TO THE COUNTRIES CONCERNED.
CHAZALI SHAFI, MALAYSIA RECALLED THAT AT BALI THE ASEAN COUNTRIES HAD REFERRED TO VIETNAMESE RESPONSIBILITY AS THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM. MALAYSIA HAD BORNE THE MAIN BURDEN OF THE BOAT PEOPLE PROBLEM TOTALLING 120,308 ARRIVALS. THEY HAD NEVER ASKED VIETNAM TO STOP THE FLOW, MERELY TO MAKE IT ORDERLY. HE WAS FRIGHTENED OF BEING SADDLED WITH THOUSANDS OF UNWANTED BOAT PEOPLE. HE COMMENDED THE US, AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND FRANCE AND ALSO SONODA'S OFFER THIS MORNING. BUT ALL THESE EFFORTS HAD NOT MADE ANY IMPACT WHICH WAS WHY MALAYSIA HAD HAD TO TAKE
FIRM HEASURES. HE INTRODUCED HIS PAPER '' VIETNAMESE BOAT
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