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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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