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PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES
A GENERAL CONSENSUS ON PROCEDURES FOR RESETTLING PRE-CUT OFF DATE REFUGEES WAS AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
A) REFUGEES SHOULD BE RESETTLED IN THE COUNTRY WITH WHOM THEY HAD THE CLOSEST LINKS :
B) INITIALLY, THERE WOULD BE AN ATTEMPT TO REDUCE, VOLUNTARILY, THE 11,000 PLUS WHO HAD NO LINKS WITH THIRD COUNTRIES. THE MAJOR RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES WOULD SIFT THROUGH THE QUOTE NON-LINK UNQUOTE CASELOAD TO IDENTIFY ANY THEY COULD ACCEPT. OTHER RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES WOULD NOTIFY UNHCR OF THE CRITERIA THEY WOULD USE IN SELECTING PEOPLE FROM AMONG THE NON-LINKED. UNHCR WOULD SUBSEQUENTLY IDENTIFY SUITABLE CANDIDATES. THERE WOULD NEED TO BE SUBSEQUENT FOLLOW-UP MEETINGS OF THE RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES TO MONITOR PROGRESS, AND EVENTUALLY TO APPORTION FAIRLY THE RESIDUAL POPULATION. UNHCR BELIEVE SOME 20 PER CENT OF THE
NON-LINKED WILL BE DIFFICULT CASES.
C) RESETTELEMENT OF LINKED AND NON LINKED VIETNAMESE WOULD PROCEED IN PARALLEL. WHILE UNHCR WOULD PINPOINT LONG STAYERS AND VULNERABLE CASES, EACH RESETTLEMENT COUNTRY WOULD DECIDE ON WHOM TO TAKE AND WHEN.
EXPANSION OF CRITERIA
5. UNHCR APPEALED TO RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES TO ACCEPT A BROAD DEFINITION OF QUOTE CLOSE LINK UNQUOTE, AND TO BE FLEXIBLE IN DEFINING THE CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE OF THOSE
WITH NO LINKS.
SCREENED-IN
6.
UNHCR SUGGESTED THAT THOSE NOW BEING SCREENED-IN COULD
BE RESETTLED WITHIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RESETTLEMENT UNDERTAKINGS MADE AT ICIR AND THE ACTUAL PRE-CUT OFF CASELOAD (SEE PARA 3 ABOVE). THEY ENVISAGE PARALLEL ACTION, WITH SCREENED-IN BEING RESETTLED AT THE SAME TIME AT THE REGIONAL BACKLOG OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IS BEING CLEARED. THEY ADVOCATED AVOIDING A BUILD-UP OF SCREENED-IN AWAITING RESETTLEMENT.
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