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VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE: THE NEXT STEPS
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As you know, I drew a blank with Secretary of State
Baker and President Bush in Washington earlier this week.
Although we have won the argument with the rest of the
international community, positive approval of mandatory
repatriation is politically impossible for the Bush
Administration. The best that we can hope for is to
persuade them to step aside, gracefully or otherwise, and
stop blocking action by the rest of us. To achieve that,
it may be necessary to ask you to intervene again with.
President Bush personally when we have prepared the
ground further, possibly with parallel action by friends
like Brian Mulroney.
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I believe that our objective should be to preserve the
Steering Committee consensus reached in Geneva on 24
January and seek to persuade the parties directly
concerned, notably the first asylum countries, UNHCR, and
Vietnam, to implement it as necessary without the
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