1 condition of Bowring today at your visit. You seem to have been
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pleased with that. Could you just, you know, clarify that? I mean,
are you or aren't you?
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MR HOCKE:
I said UNHCR is against closed camp
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policy. Full stop.
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QUESTION:
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So that means you are not
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but you
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MR HOCKE:
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QUESTION:
Who told you that?
Because you said some improvement was
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needed.
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MR HOCKE:
through these camps, and not just closed door, the less I get
accustomed to them.
No. I told you the more I am going
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QUESTION:
Could you just repeat for us then,
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what is the UNHCR's opposition to the closed camp policy?
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MR HOCKE:
May I ask you why you would be opposed
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and maybe it is for the same reason.
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QUESTION:
I have to ask you the question,
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Mr Hocke.
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MR HOCKE:
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before
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You see it is very easy, as I told you sorry, I can't answer any longer. It is stopped here.
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welcome people in a country of first asylum and especially when a government would hope that these people would not stay for ever, has to try to create the best condition for them, whenever one of the solutions I described would be forthcoming, to take advantage. It is 35 common sense and I think that even the authority in Hong Kong when
they decided about the closed camp policy also said outright that they
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