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WEDNESDAY, SEI TEMBER 27, 1989
"ABANDONING
FIRST
POLICE AND THE ROYAL NAVY OCCUPANTS, FROM LANDING IN
THE
DIRECTING
BOATS. VIETNAMESE
ASYLUM
PREVENT ΤΟ HONG KONG.
WOULD MEAN
BOATS TOWING
ΤΟ OUT
MARINE AND THEIR
WITH
SEA, "THIS WOULD INVOLVE ATTENDANT POSSIBILITIES OF BOATS BEING SWAMPED, OR BEING SUNK OCCUPANTS, OR BOAT PEOPLE THROWING THEMSELVES INTO THE SEA.
THE
BY THE
IF
"A COURSE OF ACTION SUCH AS THIS, IF IT ENDANGERED LIFE, OR
OF LIFE, IS IN THE COURSE OF ITS EXECUTION IT PROHIBITED THE SAVING
FUNDAMENTAL MORAL AND PRACTICAL OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING QUESTIONS.
"IT
WHICH
RAISES
CONDEMNATION
AND THE REPUDIATED THE AND RESETTLEMENT
WOULD ALSO AROUSE INTERNATIONAL LIKELIHOOD THAT HONG KONG WOULD BE REGARDED AS HAVING
BENEFITS THE RISKING FOREGOING
CPA, THEREBY REPATRIATION ASSISTANCE UNDER THE AGREEMENT.
OF
THE MEANS OF RETURN
PROVIDING THE ANSWERS TO MR BARNES SAID HE SAW THE CPA DEPARTURE FROM HONG KONG OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE, BOTH BY RESETTLEMENT FOR REFUGEES AND BY THE VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY
OF NON-REFUGEES.
VITAL FACTORS THE EFFORTS OF THE LONGER TERM, THE
"FOR STOPPING DEPARTURES FROM VIETNAM, I SEE AS THE DETERRENCE PROVIDED BY INVOLUNTARY REPATRIATION, THE VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES THEMSELVES AND, IN ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF VIETNAM.
SAID.
**
"THE NEED FOR ACTION IS CRITICAL, TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE,
HE
OF SOME OF THE MAJOR EARLIER MR BARNES CITED THE ATTITUDES PLAYERS AS SOME OF THE FACTORS HAVING BEARINGS ON THE VBF PROBLEM.
IN
DISTINCTLY
RELATIVELY MORE COMPLEX HE SAID U.S. OFFICIAL ATTITUDES WERE AND POINTED OUT THAT THE VIEW EXPRESSED BY THE U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
FORCED REPATRIATION WAS OPPOSING THE GENEVA CONFERENCE UNHELPFUL.
THE STATEMENT
BY
THE
U.S.
REPRESENTATIVE PRINCIPLES OF THE CPA BUT ALSO AND OTHER
AS
HE DESCRIBED 'ARGUABLY AT VARIANCE NOT ONLY WITH THE VERY WHICH THE U.S. WERE AT GENEVA TO ENDORSE, AND DID WITH AMERICA'S OWN DEPORTATION PRACTICES TO MEXICO. LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES"
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ENDORSE,
HAITI
MR BARNES
SAID, WAS WITH A POPULATION
ONE OF KILOMETRE,
THE
ANOTHER FACTOR AFFECTING THE VBP PROBLEM, HONG KONG'S RELATIVELY TINY AND CROWDED TERRITORY DENSITY OF SOME HIGHEST IN THE WORLD.
5.192
PERSONS
PER
SQUARE
"THIS COMPARES WITH 22 PERSONS
PER SQUARE KILOMETRE IN THE HE UNITED STATES AND 230 PER SQUARE KILOMETRE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM," SAID.
"ON A