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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1989
NON-VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION THE LOGICAL OUTCOME: 5 FOR S
* * * * *
THE
SECRETARY
FOR SECURITY. MR
FOR THOSE
GEOFFREY
BARNES.
TODAY THE LOGICAL VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE CLASSIFIED AS NON-REFUGEES AND WHO DID NOT
(WEDNESDAY) STRESSED THAT NON-VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION WAS OUTCOME OF THE SCREENING PROCESS
HAD BEEN [VBP) WHO VOLUNTEER TO RETURN.
"FOR SUCH PEOPLE THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE STAY INDEFINITELY IN CAMPS IN HONG KONG IT IS IMPRACTICAL," HE SAID.
IS TO REPATRIATION
AS AN OPTION
INHUMANE AS
ΤΟ
MR BARNES WAS GIVING A LUNCHEON TALK ON "VBP: THE SEARCH FOR
IN WHICH HE DISCUSSED SOLUTION" TO THE BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
FACTORS AFFECTING THE THE VBP PROBLEM, THE BACKGROUND, THE
PROBLEM
AND THE SOLUTIONS.
A
WILL NOT HE SAID: "WE BELIEVE THAT NON-VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION
HONG KONG NEEDS TO STOF ONLY ACT AS THE ESSENTIAL DETERRENT WHICH
WHO ARE ALREADY HERE INTO ARRIVALS BUT WILL ALSO STIMULATE THOSE VOLUNTEERING TO GO BACK TO VIETNAM.
AND
"WE SEE NON-VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION AS BEING ENCOMPASSED BY COMPREHENSIVE
OF
(CPA) ACTION
ENDORSED IN GENEVA ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE.
AS
PLAN
THE
IN
OF ORIGIN "WE SEE THE RETURN OF NON-REFUGEES TO THEIR COUNTRY BEING IN
OF CATEGORY THE
ILLEGAL SAME
AS THE DEPORTATION WORLD. THE ONLY DIFFERENCES BEING IMMIGRANTS ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE
REINTEGRATION ASSISTANCE, FOR THAT WE WOULD ENSURE ARRANGEMENTS FOR
ASSURANCES OF NON-PERSECUTION MONITORING AFTER THEIR RETURN AND FOR OF RETURNEES FROM THE VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES.
TO
BEING COMPLEMENTARY "WE SEE NON-VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION AS
BOTH MODES CONTINUING IN PARALLEL
VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION, AND FOR WITH EACH OTHER.
H
REPATRIATION
MR BARNES SAID VOLUNTARY COMPONENTS OF THE CPA AND ITS ADVANTAGES WERE FLEXIBILITY.
WAS ONE OF THE MAIN ITS ACCEPTABILITY AND
ARE DISADVANTAGES
THAT
IS NEVER PROVIDE THE OF TIMEFRAME WHICH
HOWEVER. HE POINTED OUT: "ITS SLOW, IT IS NOT A DETERRENT AND, ON ITS OWN, WILL
SORT SOLUTION TO HONG KONG'S PROBLEM WITHIN THE WOULD BE REALISTIC AND ACCEPTABLE FOR HONG KONG."
יף ד
ASYLUM, MR BARNES NOTED TURNING TO THE ABANDONMENT OF FIRST
AS A THAT IT WAS A COURSE OF ACTION SEEN BY MANY PEOPLE IN HONG KONG SOLUTION TO THE VBP PROBLEM.
OF
SELDOM ACCOMPANIED BY "IT IS, UNFORTUNATELY, A VIEW WHICH IS ANY REAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF WHAT THE ABANDONMENT FIRST ASYLUM WOULD ACTUALLY MEAN, HE SAID.
/"ABANDONING FIRST