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and may make the Vietnamese cancel the entire repatriation exercise.
To persuade them to continue under these conditions, we may need to
consider development aid to Vietnam, perhaps, as they want, in the
form of aid to areas where boat people come from, or increase
re-integration payments to returning boat people. We are already committed to discussing modifications to the process after the first
return.
CONCLUSIONS
17.
Colleagues are invited to endorse the assessment in this
paper and agree the following conclusions:
(a)
we should continue to make preparations for the repatriation of a first group of acquiescent returnees. It would be helpful to have contingent authority to proceed with mandatory repatriation in
the light of the outcome of SC3.
(b) we should maintain our efforts to persuade the Americans and
the UNHCR to accept the logic of the screening policy and to
acknowledge that voluntary repatriation alone cannot provide a
comprehensive solution to the problem of those screened out;
(c)
are
be)
at SC3 we should seek to secure agreement that additional measures other than voluntary repatriation (will be required, thereby creating the necessary conditions for involuntary repatriation from
Hong Kong to proceed.
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