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face the fact that the number who volunteer will
always be a small minority.
For the majority, if
there is no prospect of resettlement as refugees
elsewhere, there will have to be a programme for
orderly return to their homes, with arrangements for
monitoring the way they are treated after their
return. This is a view now increasingly shared by
the voluntary agencies closest to the problem, Oxfam,
Save the Children Fund and the British Refugee
Council. It cannot be right to keep these poor
people, a large number of them children, inside camps
for year after year, where whatever the facilities
and whatever the precautions taken, frustration will
periodically turn to violence.
When the international community and, in
particular, we and the countries in South East Asia
who are being overwhelmed by the problem, try to find
the way forward, I ask for your understanding of our
dilemma..
sk you also to look at the problem
straigh th minds and emotions, unclouded by
memories of the United States' own difficult
relationship with Vietnam.
Apart from the problem of massive arrivals of
people from Vietnam, we have other important domestic
issues to tackle in the form of how to develop and