1989-06-12 21:17 COI RADIO TECH SERVICES.
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TRANSCRIPT E SELECT COMMITTER OI BOIG KUNG
12 JUB 1989
SIR DAVID WILSON:
If I could say, Xr Lester, on that that we in Hong
It is a
Kong do not like running camps of this sort.
problem which has been thrust on us which has tried the
patience of the whole community. As a Government, to have
to run these sort of detention centres, and I do not
believe that they are that appalling incidentally, but to
run any sort of detention centre goes right against the
grain and that is why we are looking for international
arrangements to deal with this problez.
MR LESTER:
to see
Well that is the big question, what would you like
come out of Geneva this week, the conference that
you are just going to?
SIR DAVID VILSON:
What we would like to see is arrangements first of
all to speed up resettlement, because resettlement has
been appallingly slow. We have thousands of people who
have stayed in our refugee camps, and these are now open
camps, for 5 years or more waiting for resettlement
despite promises from the international community.
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