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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989
VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION OF VBP MAY START SOON
OF
THE
VIETNAMESE BOAT
THE SECRETARY
PEOPLE
WHO HAVE THE END OF
SECURITY,
THE
HON
REPATRIATION VOLUNTARILY ASKED TO RETURN TO VIETNAM MAY START TOWARDS
FOR FEBRUARY, THIS MONTH OR IN GEOFFREY BARNES, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
"THE
FOR
REFUGEES VIETNAM,
IS
AND
THE
A
UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REPATRIATION OF THESE VOLUNTEERS TO
OF UNDERSTANDING WITH MEMORANDUM HAS RECENTLY CONCLUDED A
ON THE PRINCIPLES GOVERNMENT OF THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
MR BARNES SAID IN OF VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION, AND PROCEDURES WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON POON CHI-FAI.
INTERNATIONAL APPEAL FOR THE UNHCR HAD RECENTLY LAUNCHED AN
SOME 500 VIETNAMESE BOAT US$577,000 TO PAY FOR THE REPATRIATION OF
KONG, HE PEOPLE, OF WHICH AROUND 300 SEEMED LIKELY TO COME FROM HONG SAID.
"ON THE BASIS OF CURRENT PLANNING
REPATRIATIONS WILL BE MADE
TOWARDS
THE
WE HOPE THAT A START ON END OF THIS MONTH OR IN
FEBRUARY," MR BARNES SAID.
TALKING ON THE
WITHDRAWALS
REPATRIATION, MR BARNES SAID OF THE 464
JUNE 16 LAST YEAR, 179 (OR 38.6 PER CENT) HAD SUBSEQUENTLY WITHDRAW.
THE 285 APPLICATIONS WHICH REMAINED BEING PROCESSED, HE SAID.
VOLUNTARY APPLICATIONS OF
APPLICATIONS RECEIVED SINCE SOUGHT TO
FOR
OPERATIVE WERE CURRENTLY
TO VIETNAM MADE BY BOAT "THE APPLICATIONS FOR REPATRIATION
1988 HAVE ALL BEEN
AND VOLUNTARY PEOPLE ARRIVING AFTER JUNE 16,
FOR WISHING APPLICANTS HAVE NOT BEEN QUESTIONED AS TO THEIR TO RETURN," MR BARNES POINTED OUT.
REASONS
"NOR HAVE THOSE EXPLAIN THEIR REASONS FOR DOING SO.
WHO
CHANGE
THEIR
MINDS BEEN
REQUIRED
TO
"WE THUS HAVE
NO
INFORMATION RELIABLE
AS ΤΟ
WHY
SOME
"
APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN,
HOWEVER, MR BARNES
REPATRIATION OF A SIZEABLE
BELIEVED
VOLUNTEERS GROUP OF
THE
EARLY
AND WOULD
SUCCESSFUL
UNDOUBTEDLY
ASSIST AND PROMOTE THE PROCESS OF VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION.
/"ONCE THOSE