QUESTION ON COMMISSION TO SUPERVISE THE DEPARTURE OF REFUGEES.
A: THIS IS ONLY KITE-FLYING IN A WAY. BUT IT DID SEEM TO ME
THAT THERE MIGHT BE A POSSIBILITY OF COUNTRIES WHICH WERE
ACCEPTABLE CENERALLY SPEAKING BOTH TO THE VIETNAMESE AND TO
EVERYBODY CONCERNED WHO WERE NON-ALIGNED AND NEUTRAL, WHO COULD MAKE THEMSELVES IN A SEPSE, IF NOT RESPONSIBLE, AT ANY RATE VERY CONCERNED IN THE WAY THAT PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO LEAVE
VIETNAM, LEFT VIETNAM, LAOS AND CAMBODIA AND THAT THEY CAN SEE
THAT THINGS ARE BEING PROPERLY DORE AND PEOPLE WERE BEING
TREATED PROPOERLY. THIS MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE TO DO BUT IT SEEMS
AT ANY RATE AN IDEA WORTH CONSIDERING,
QUESTION ON THE DANCER OF REFUGEE CAMPS IN VIETNAM TURNING
INTO CONCENTRATION COMPS. IS UN SUPERVISION POSSIBLE?
A: WELL, AS I SAY, I DON'T THINK THAT A CAMP IS NECESSARY, I THINK
THAT IF THE VIETNAM GOVERNMENT BEHAVES INA WAY IN WHICH A
RESPOSIBLE GOVERNMENT BEPAVES THERE WAS NO NEED FOR CAMPS FOR
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO EMIGRATE BECAUSE THEY CAN STAY IN THEIR
HOMES AND STAY IN THEIR JOBS. I THINK THAT THERE IS A DANGER
IN HAVING A CAMP OF THAT KIND THAT UN-FINANCED CAMPS WILL BE
IN VIETNAM AND MIGHT CONCEIVADLY WORSEN THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN
MAKE IT BETTER. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THERE ARE WAYS IN CHICH
ONE COULD SUPERVISE IT AND I DON'T THINK THAT THERE ARE DANCERS
AND ONE OUGHT TO RECOGNISE THAT THERE ARE DANCERS IN IT.
Q: CAN YOU BE ANY FIRMER ABOUT THE TIME SCALE IN MIND FOR THE
10,832 COMING TO BRITAIN?
LORD CARRINGTON: NO, WE ARE DISCUSSING AT THE MOMENT WITH THE
GOVERNOR HOW WE FACE IT AND HOW WE DO IT. A GREAT DEAL DEPENDS
FOR EXAMPLE, IF HE CAN DO SOME OF THE PROCESSING IN HONG KONG
AND SAVE US SOME TIME IN THE CAMPS IN ENGLAND AND SO ON.
I COULDN'T SAY FIRMLY BUT WE SHALL GET AHEAD WITH IT AS QUICKLY
AS WE CAN.
Q: DOES THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FRENCH PROPOSAL FOR A
MORATORIUM ON THE FLOW OF REFUGEES FROM VIETNAM?.
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