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But of 6,500 screened out after appeal, only 105 have volunteered
to return.
Voluntary repatriation alone cannot provide the comprehensive
solution.
No refugees will be returned to Vietnam.
No question of any boat people being returned to Vietnam without assurances from Vietnamese that they will not be punished or persecuted and that their conditions on return can be monitored.
Use of Force
The procedures used in returning a first group of people who had not volunteered were the same as those applied worldwide in removing persons refused permission to remain.
36. OUTCOME OF SC3 ON 23/24 JANUARY
Considerable progress was made; all understood the gravity of the
Came close to consensus. That is a valuable step
problem.
forward.
Obviously regrettable that two governments were unable to join this
But High Commissioner for Refugees is trying to persuade
consensus.
the US and Vietnam to reconsider their position.
37. UNITED STATES POSITION
The United States administration is not willing to accept that Vietnamese who are not refugees should be returned involuntarily to their country of origin, and argues that a programme of voluntary return will provide a solution to the problem.
Of 6,500 Our experience in Hong Kong does not bear this out. people determined by screening not to be refugees, only 105 have
volunteered to return.
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