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inviting him to visit London next week to discuss the way
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The other key player is Vietnam. To help persuade the
Vietnamese to go on cooperating over boat people, we need
to make them an attractive offer. For this purpose,
Francis Maude plans to visit Hanoi from 18-21 February.
We have already told the Vietnamese following their
cooperation over the 12 December repatriation that to
continue the process we are prepared to consider a
three-fold approach. First, assistance to areas where
many clandestine departures take place, to be run by NGOS
under a special scheme with an initial allocation of £l
million. Second, a modest technical cooperation
programme, mainly training and the Heads of Mission gifts
Scheme £100,000 allocated for 1990/91, rising in future
Third, a constructive role in discussion with the
IFIS on Vietnam and an eventual willingness to provide
programme aid for an internationally agreed adjustment
programme, perhaps some $5 million. In addition, we are
ready to make available £l million for transit and
re-training centres in Vietnam to increase their capacity
to receive back boat people, volunteers and
non-volunteers, from Hong Kong.
years.
5 If UNHCR and Vietnam can be persuaded to cooperate,
the first step might be a meeting of interested
countries, if possible convened by the UNHCR itself, to
consider how to implement the January 24 consensus.
not least as a result of the American moratorium, another
If,