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from per capita payments towards more general assistance
to the communities concerned. We would envisage instituting a review of the arrangements during 1990 as required by your predecessor in his letter of 29 June.
(d) Mandatory repatriation: financial assistance to
Vietnam
8. In order to ensure the continued cooperation of
Vietnam over non voluntary repatriation, it will be
necessary to provide additional financial assistance to
Vietnam in the form of aid to the communities to which
the boat people would return.
amount involved would
We would keep it as
The
be negotiated with the Vietnamese.
small as possible; but a sum of at least £5 million will probably be needed if it is to make any political impact on the Vietnamese Government. Payment would be spread
over a number of years, and would be subject to a steady
and substantial flow of non-volunteers to Vietnam, and to evidence that the Vietnamese were deterring any further exodus of boat people. The content of any such programme would need to be determined in the light of requirements
in the communities concerned. We might also want to take advice from the NGOs. I do not expect expenditure under this heading to be necessary in the current financial
year.
(e) Mandatory repatriation: monitoring expenditure
9. No substantial programme of non voluntary repatriation can be viable without internationally
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