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which
in
address the Indo-Chinese refugee problem,
was approved by the Preparatory Conference
Kuala Lumpur in March 1989.
Among the arrangements foreseen
in the CPA. is
the introduction of procedures for determining
the status of all newly arriving Indo-Chinese
asylum-seekers in South East Asian countries,
Thus, under the provisions of the CPA only those
asylum-seekers recognized a8 refugees will qualify for resettlement.
Nevertheless, there remain between 50,000 and
60,000 Vietnamese refugees for whom resettlement
18 to be guaranteed under the CPA ав their
arrival in camps
before announced cut-off-dates
qualified them for primae facie recognition.
Undertakings by resettlement countries
countries to provide
solutions for this population comprise one of the
essential and interdependent components of the
CPA.
During the session of the Co-ordinating Committee
for the International Conference held on 19
19 and
20 April it was understood that my office would
call upon the maximum number of concerned States
to elaborate plans and seek to quantify
commitments to resettle recognized refugees from the region. To this end, the attached analysis