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opinion about the return of non-refugees. He added that
Germany had its own W problem; arranging for the
repatriation of Vietnamese immigrant workers in the
former GDR. This was slightly complicated by Vietnam's
failure so far to confirm an amnesty for all returnees.
Herr Bergner said that the FOO Boat People Unit had been
very helpful to the Germany Embassy in advising on these
aspects.
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8. Sir J Coles had said that we also were very sensitive
to the treatment of returnees. For the last two years
the UNHCR, our Embassy
in Hanoi and others had been
monitoring the conditions of returned non-refugees.
that time we had not found a single case of persecution. An impressive record. He agreed with Herr Schlagintweit that conditions in Vietnam were gradually improving and would in time make emigration a less attractive prospect, but it would take a long time for the economy to recover.
The key lay with the United States. There was a severe
to
need for international finance. The US should cease
block Vietnam's access to the IFI's. He thought that
within a year or so US/ Vietnam relations would normalise.
He agreed with Herr Schlagintweit that the old structures of the Communist economy were impeding progress, as was
the case in China.
China
9. Herr Schlaginweit said that on his recent
that on his recent visit to
China his main impression had been of the enormous economic dy nami sm particularly in the coastal regions but
dynamism
also evident in Peking. The Chinese leadership realised they had to be successful economically to keep power and were subordinating everything to this. It was however
not necessarily the case as some had i that economic
it,
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