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1. UNHCR called a Technical Resettlement Meeting on Thursday 22 April. The invitation, which issued on 13 April, contained the agenda (copy attached).
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2. The High Commissioner chaired the meeting. by Mr Zollner (Director of Assistance), Mr Rizvi (Coordinator. for SE Asia), Mr Feldmann (Head of Resettlement Division) and
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3. Mr Hartling opened with the attached statement. He saw the meeting as a chance to take stock of what has been achieved and what remains to be done in SE Asia. He hoped the internationa community would not be found wanting in the need to relivere the burden of first asylum countries. UNHCR were pursuing. all solutions, including repatriation and negotiations for repatriations to Cambodia are currently in train. There was now
This a definite downward trend in the number of new arrivals. may be the beginning of the end of the problem.
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4. On the Orderly Departure Programme (ODP) Mr Hartling said that. the level of departures hopefully would rise beyond 1000 a month. This should decrease the numbers leaving by boat.
The Khmer caseload But financing the ODP was proving difficult. of 78,000 had been static for over a year, and active interest is required for those persons who wish to resettle abroad.
Sweden had made a DISERO Singapore was now the focal point. first offer of places for the scheme.
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5. The High Commissioner mentioned countries having a small family reunification programme and asked that they take cases. with close claims more expeditiously than at present. He also asked for more places for mentally ill refugees who are tradition difficult to place. As far as priorities go Kampucheans should- be first, then the low land Lao and then the Hill Lao and Vietnamese. Given the existing difficulties the problems are not insurmountable and we could be experiencing the beginning of the end of the SE Asian problem.
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Mr Hartling then opened the meeting for comment. Intergovernmental Committee for Migration (ICM) opened with some comments on medical cases. They thought that there was a problem over settlement countries taking TB cases' and wondered whether these could be treated elsewhere in the first instanceTM (UK or Denmark) before travelling to the final resettlement country. But the more difficult cases were the psychotic patients; places were urgently required. Japan asked if UNHCR would assist in interviewing the Cambodians in the Holding Centres as Japanese representatives had no access. Repatriation was an important element and Japan looked forward to hearing
Japan had a hard-core the results of the current negotiations. of refugees and 'were suggesting that they stay and settle but Canada expressed concern: there were difficulties with this. at what they saw as a fundamental shift in UNHCR policy; a swit repatriation. What are the current negotiations intended to: dchieve? In cases where repatriation is not feasible and
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