1.)

continued law enforcement measures directed against

those organizing clandestine departures; and

2.) coordinated international and domestic mass-media

activities focussing on the dangers and disadvantages

of clandestine departure, and encouragement of the use

of regular departure and other migration programs.

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The calls, made most strongly by the ASEAN countries, for

Vietnam to make substantial efforts to deter "clandestine

departures" are based on an understandable concern to address the

problem of continued mass exodus "at its root. Proponents of

enforced controls on departures simultaneously call on Vietnam

and the concerned resettlement countries to work to make legal

migration programs the sole means of exit for those wishing to

leave.

However, this "combined root approach" does not take into

account that in many cases bona fide refugees with a compelling

fear of persecution may not be able to benefit from more

officially facilitated programs, and will of necessity seek

clandestine means of flight.

Additionally, what is being called

for is continued enforcement of Vietnam's laws against "the

organizing of illegal departures." It is the continued existence-in-force of this specific Vietnamese legal code, which

also contains provisions for the punishment of participants in

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