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PEOPLE AND PROPOSALS BY MALAYSIA”. (PREVIOUSLY HANDED OVER ' IN ONDON). PROPOSINC PROCESSING CENTRES IN VIETNAM RUD DY UNICR EVEN THOUGH THAT WOULD REQUIRE A COMPLETE NEW MAKDATE FOR UNHCR,
HE ALSO PROPOSED PROCESSING CENTRES IN RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES, SUCH AS OKINAWA (BUT NOT CUAR AND NEW CALADONIA). REFUGEES
BEING PROCESSED THERE NEED HOT NECESSARILY GO TO JAPAN. MALAYSIA
WAS DETERMINED TO REMOVE ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND LEAVE NO
RESIDUE. MALAYSIA HAD TAKEN 2,300 REFUGEES FOR PERMANENT
SETTLEMENT PUT WOULD TAKE HOT ONE MORE. IT WOULD HELP IF THE
SENSE OF FEAR IN VIETNAM COULD BE ELIMINATED. HE WAS GLAD
VIETNAM WAS PRESENT SO THAT THERE COULD DE FURTHER COOPERATION
AND HE WELCOMED THE SEVEN POINT UNICR/ VIETNAM PLAN. UNLESS
FURTHER PERMANENT RESETTLEMENT OFFERS WERE ASSURED MALAYSIA WOULD
FAVE TO CONTINUE TO TAKE FIRM MEASURES WITH NEW ARRIVALS.
5. PHAN HEIN, VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER SAID VIETNAM'S
PRESENCE AT THE MEETING PROVED THEIR FOODWILL: THEY HOPED TO
ACHIEVE CONCRETE SOLUTIONS. THE DEVASTATION FOLLOING 33 YEARS
OF WAR WAS PROVING HARD TO REPAIR, AND THERE HAD BEEN FURTHER
WARS. VIETIAM WAS IN TOUCH WITH UNHCR. HE READ OUT THE SEVEN
POINTS OF THE 33 MAY ARRANGEMENT. IT SHOULD DE EXPANDED. VIETNAM
REALISED THE PROBLER FOR THE ASEAN COUNTRIES AND WAS HAVING
BILATERAL TALKS WITH THEM. AT THIS MEETING IT WAS NECESSARY
TO CONCENTRATE ON HUMANITARIAN ASPECTS AND AVOID ALL POLITICAL
MANOEUVRES WHICH WOULD SABOTAGE THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING.
PE THEN LISTED FIVE PROPOSALS. FIRST, VIETNAM WOULD JONTINUE
TO COOPERATE ITH WAMOR ON ORDERLY DEPARTURE AND WOULD PUNISH
THOSE WHO ATTEMPTED TO LEAVE ILLEGALLY. SECOND, TO HELP
ASEAN THEY SUPPORTED THE IDEA OF TRANSIT CAMPS WHICH MIGHT DE SET UP FOR EXAMPLE IN GUAM, OKINAWA AND CHINA, (VIETNAM „OULD
ALSO CONSIDER THE IDEA OF SETTIN UP TRANSIT CENTRES
INSIDE VIETNAM). THIRD, THE RICH COUNTRIES SHOUL CONTRIBUTE MORE
FINANCE AND RECEIVE MORE REFUGEES FOR PERMANENT SETTLEMENT.
THE FOURTH AND FIFTH POINTS AMMOUNTED TO AN APPEAL TO OTHER COUNTRIES
AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIO IS ALSO TO HELP RELIEVE THE BURDEN
FROM THE FIRST ASYLUM COUNTRIES. HE CONCLUDED BY EXPRESSING GRATITUD
TO THE COUNTRIES WHICH HAD OFFERED AID MIC WAS SO VITAL TOR REST-
RING VIETNAM'S ECONOMY.N
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/ 6. MR O'KENNEDY,