5.
Our efforts
in
main resettlement
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recent months to explore with the
countries and UNHCR whether a consensus
might be possible on a joint approach
to the Vietnamese
have made little headway.
The resettlement
countries
themselves seem far from
clear on where the
way
ahead
lies.
Their
representatives
in
Geneva recently met
jointly with M. Hocké in an effort to
to focus his attention
on the problem and to encourage him, if at all possible,
to take
lead a
in
formulating
a
new
approach on
the
Vietnamese problem.
Your and our recent discussions with
M.
Hocké I think indicated that the
UNHCR is moving
gradually
towards
position where a
they are
prepared
to
recognise
refugees
a
new
group
of
migrants
who
are
not
true
in
the terms of the Convention
and Protocol.
Our next step,
thoughts, and
must
be to
then
to
persuade him
examine with him,
to refine
these
in
concert
with
solutions
the resettlement countries, what
beyond continuing resettlement
realistic
and durable
can
be
identified
this for
category new
of migrants.
It
will
not
prove easy
in the Vietnamese
context to
focus UNHCR
minds
on non-resettlement
but solutions,
I
see
no
alternative.
I believe it is
in essential
political
terms
that
we carry
UNHCR
with
us unequivocally
in
whatever new strategy we eventually formulate.
6.
I have explained
to
current you my
views on
future
strategy at
some length because
I recognise the strength
of your
argument
that
we
could not
invite colleagues
to
accept
linking it
further a
UK resettlement
commitment
without
to some
wider approach
to address
the problem
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