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QUARTO AFTER CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION ALL AROUND, MTNG CHAIRMAN SUMMARIZED HIS SENSE OF THREE (3){ OPTIONS AVAILABLE AND STATED THAT THESE WUD BE PRESENTED TO HIGHEST ECHELONS MFA AND PERHAPS OFFICE OF PRES, TO WIT AAA OPTION ONE: FORMAL GOP ADOPTION OF QUOTE CLOSED DOOR POLICY UNQUOTE BY ACTIVELY AND FORCIBLY PREVENTING ARRIVAL PHI ANY NEW REFUGEES, BY4CLOSURE: OF PFAC, PRTC AND PRPC, AND BY ABBREGATION GOP SIGNATURE TO 1951 CONVENTION AND 1967 PROTOCOL. OPTION TWO: UNHCR PROPOSAL PART C OF MNL/6581, ON GOP CONDITION AVAILABLE FACILITY COULD BE IDENTIFIED WITH UNHCR PAYING ENTIRE/ENTIRE COST CARE THESE EX-CHINA CASES FOR AS LONG AS NECESS. CCC OPTION THREE: UNHCR WUD CONTINUE COLLECT ALL/ALL ARRIVING VNDPS, WHETHER EX-CHINA OR NOT, AND CARE FOR THEM IN REFUGEE FACILITY (ALTHO COULD BE ISOLATED FROM REST OF GENUINE REFUGEE RESIDENTS) WITH .NO/NOR FURTHER REAL GOP INVOLVEMENT IN ASSESSING REF STATUS,
DETERMINING FORMER PRC RESIDENCE, OR ARRANGING/FORCING RETURN TO PRC OF THOSE CONFIRMED EX-CHINA CASES.
QUINTO AAA COMMENT OPTION ONE WAS VERY CLEARLY THE OVERWHELMING SENTIMENTAL FAVOURITE OF ENTIRE/ENTIRE GRP EXCEPT AMB VILLA WHO
BBB PREFERRED OPTION THREE WHILE SEEING SOME MERIT OPTION TWO
DESPITE PATENTLY IMPOSSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION (POLITICALLY OR TECHNICALLY) OF OPTION ONE, REST OF GRP MUCH PREFERRED OPTION ONE (COMPLETE NON-PRESENCE REFS IN PHI) TO OPTION THREE (COMPLETE UNHCR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL VNDPS PRESENT IN PHI UNDER WHATEVER CIRCUMSTANCES AND PENDING THEIR EVENTUAL RESETTLEMENT) REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL COST TO PHI INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION. CCC AMB VILLA ENQUIRED ABOUT FIRST-ASYLUM PRACTICES IN REGION, AND BEYER INFORMED ▾ THAT WHILE MOST/MOST ASEAN COUNTRIES MIGHT HARBOUR CLOSET SUPPORT FOR GOP OPTION ONE, OTHER ASEAN COUNTRIES WERE CURRENTLY HOSTING MANY/MANY TIMES MORE FIRST ASYLUM VIETNAMESE REFS THAN PHI YET NOT/NOT EFFECTING ANY QUOTE CLOSED DOOR POLICY UNQUOTE. BEYER REITERATED THAT PHI WAS ONLY/ONLY ASEAN COUNTRY SIGNATORY REFUGEE CONVENTION/PROTOCOL, AND NOW ONLY/ONLY ONE WISHING ADOPT QUOTE CLOSED DOOR POLICY UNQUOTE. DDD BEYER STATED HE DOUBTED AQUINO GOVT WUD FINALLY EVER AGREE TO OPTION ONE, AND THAT UNHCR/HQS HAD ALREADY REJECTED OPTION THREE. THEREFORE,
THEREFORE, BOTH SIDES WERE LEFT WITH OPTION TWO, WHICH REMAINED VALID.
MEETING CONCLUDED WITH AMB VILLA TO DRAFT OPTION PAPER FOR MINISTER OF FORAFFAIRS, WHILE BEYER PROMISED INFORM UNHCR/HQS AND/AND INTERESTED RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES OF THE RESULTS OF THIS MTNG. THIS END, LOCAL EMBASSIES:AUL,BEL, CAN, FRA, FRG, JAP, NOR, UK, AND USA HAVE OFFICIALLY RECEIVED COPIES THIS TELEX.
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SEPTIMO IN VIEW UNHCR/MNL, BALL NOW IN GOP/MFA COURT, WITH DISCREET DEMARCHES BY RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES TO MFA INTERLOCUTORS PROBABLY USEFUL DURING GOP'S OWN FORTHCOMING POLICY REVIEW. (UNHCR MANILA)
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