VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS:
SUPPLEMENTARIES
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Orderly Repatriation Programme
ANNEX I
ORP is in accordance with Comprehensive Plan of Action approved in
1989 by Second International Conference on Indo-Chinese Refugees.
Vietnamese assurance that no returnees will face persecution.
Monitoring in Vietnam by UNHCR, British Embassy and NGOs. No evidence whatever of ill-treatment by authorities in more than 20,000 cases, including returns from the first asylum countries in
the region.
Not humane to keep migrants in camps indefinitely. Illegal immigrants (ie those found not to be refugees) have no access to
resettlement.
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- To ensure that genuine refugees are protected and resettled, economic migrants must return to their country of origin, in
accordance with international practice.
- We have now returned 123 non-refugees (75 doubt backers and 48 recent arrivals including family members) in addition to the 51 who were repatriated in December 1989.
X 2. ORP Procedures
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Procedures in accordance with international practice for the return
of illegal immigrants.
Screening and appeal procedures monitored by UNHCR who have mandate to declare anybody a refugee at any stage of the process.
UNHCR have expressed satisfaction with screening process and it has passed the scrutiny of judicial review.
Nobody declared a refugee by UNHCR will be repatriated.
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