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(d)
DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)
Mandatory repatriation: financial assistance to
Vietnam
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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. The amount
involved would be the subject of negotiation between
ourselves and the Vietnamese. Our aim would
obviously be to keep this as small as possible
But
I believe that a sum of at least £5 million will be
needed if it is to make any political impact on the
Vietnamese Government.
Such a payment would be
spread over a number of years and would of course be
subject to there being a steady and substantial flow
of non-volunteers to Vietnam. We do not expect
expenditure under this heading to be necessary in
the current financial year. Our preliminary ideas on
the sort of uses to which the money might be put are
set out in Annex C.
(e) Mandatory repatriation: monitoring expenditure
No programme of non voluntary repatriation would be
viable without internationally credible monitoring.
Our objective should be to persuade the UNHCR to
undertake this, or failing that to secure the
cooperation of leading non Governmental
organisations, such as Oxfam or Save the Children.
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