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they perceive as lying outside their mandate.

US Perspective

20.

The United States Administration, up to the highest level, remains implacably opposed to involuntary repatriation to Vietnam.

Their argument for delaying the start of non-voluntary repatriation

until 1 January 1991 is that this should give sufficient time for

the voluntary programme to work. However this approach fails to

address either the question of another influx in 1990 or the future

been screened out" and are not of the growing number of those who have already been determined not

to be refugees but who have not volunteered to return.

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