Have agreed on the following:
1.
- 2.
The SRV and UNHCR will continue to co-operate and will make their
best efforts to improve, expand and accelerate the Orderly Departure
Programme from Vietnam on the basis of the Memorandum of
Understanding of 29 May 1979. To this end, the two sides will
intensify their contacts through bilateral and multilateral channels
with other parties, both at policy and technical levels.
2.
UNHCR shall continue to exert efforts to secure resettlement places
for eligible Vietnamese in countries of first asylum and, where
feasible, to promote other appropriate solutions.
3.
In the framework of a voluntary repatriation programme, the two sides
have agreed to co-operate on the basis of the following principles
and conditions:
a)
The SRV Government states that persons who leave the country
illegally commit an offence and are subject to the provision of
the law in that respect. However, within the framework of its
humanitarian policy, the SRV Government will ensure that the
voluntary return from the countries of first asylum will take
place in conditions of safety and dignity in conformity with
national and international law. This would include the waiver
of prosecution and of punitive and discriminatory measures.