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FIRST ASYLUM COUNTRIES FOR IMMIGRATION PROCESSING, AN ISSUE TOUCHED ON ALSO AT THE MEETING BY CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. THIS PROVOKED A STRONG REACTION FROM THAILAND WHO ARGUED THAT THIS UNDERMINED THE CPA PROVISIONS. THEY MADE CLEAR THAT THAILAND COULD NOT AGREE TO ACT AS AN IMMIGRATION OFFICE FOR THIRD COUNTRY PROCESSING. WE SUPPORTED THE THAIS. THE MATTER LAY OUTSIDE THE CPA PROVISIONS AND HAD TO BE
HANDLED BILATERALLY.
COMMENT
7. APART FROM THE IMMIGRATION POINT (PARA 5 POINT), THE MEETING WENT SMOOTHLY AND SEEMED TO SATISFY THE MAJOR FIST ASYLUM AND RESETTLEMENT PARTICIPANTS. A NUMBER OF ISSUES REMAIN OUTSTANDING, NOT LEAST THE EXTENT OF PLEDGES BY RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES TO CLEAR THE CAMP POPLUATIONS WHICH WILL NEED TO BE NOTIFIED BEFORE OR AT THE ICIR. THE AMERICANS HAVE SHOWN THE WAY. ALTHOUGH WE WERE NOT PRESSED THIS TIME ROUND, WE WILL NEED TO BE READY TO OFFER MORE RESETTLEMENT PLACES THAN OUR COMMITMENTS SO FAR AS THE UK CONTRIBUTION TO
CLINCHING THE COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE.
SANKEY
YYYY
ADVANCE
2
HD/HKD
NNNN
DISTRIBUTION
2
HD/SEAD
3
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