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Annex A
ELEMENTS OF A DEAL WITH THE UNITED STATES
We would, in the short term, hold off the first involuntary repatriation exercise.
In the meantime we would:
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Negotiate the expansion of reception facilities in Vietnam to speed the voluntary programme.
Prepare work on assistance projects to the main departure areas, to give those returning some prospect of a future.
Consider eg a joint UK/US approach to the Japanese to help fund 1. and 2.
The United States would agree now that we should begin a programme of involuntary return as soon as there are no more volunteers.
On the basis of agreement on the circumstances under which involuntary repatriation would become acceptable, eg:
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assurances from Vietnamese of good treatment of returnees;
agreement that their conditions can be monitored;
UNHCR will carry out monitoring;
the start of a programme of local assistance projects would coincide with the start of the programme.
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