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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1991

Q: YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN AN IDEA OF THE PROPORTION THAT YOU WOULD HOPE EXPECT WILL VOLUNTEER.

ALISTAIR ASPREY: WELL, I HOPE AND EXPECT FOR DIFFERENT THINGS. A 100 PERCENT, I EXPECT SADLY LESS.

Q: FIFTY? TWENTY?

ALISTAIR ASPREY: LET'S WAIT AND SEE.

OR

I HOPE

Q: WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO ACTUALLY TELL THE TONIGHT, TOMORROW MORNING? WHEN WILL THEY ACTUALLY GET THE NEWS THE GOVERNMENT THAT THERE HAS BEEN A FURTHER AGREEMENT.

PEOPLE

ין

THE

CAMPS,

FROM

PRESS

www

ON THE FACT THAT

ALISTAIR ASPREY: WHAT WE'VE DONE IS OBVIOUSLY, YOU'VE SEEN THIS RELEASE, WE HAVE GIVEN IT TO THE CAMP MANAGEMENTS; UNHCR ALSO HAVE IT, WE ARE STARTING A PROCESS THEREFORE AT THE MOMENT, AS THE NEWS BECOMES PUBLIC

MORE IN HONG KONG. WHAT WE WILL ALSO BE DOING IS TRANSLATING INFORMATION INTO VIETNAMESE IN FACT IT IS BEING TRANSLATED TODAY MORE

ON INFORMATION BACKGROUND

MEANS WHAT THE AGREEMENT IMPORTANCE OF VOLUNTARY RETURN, ON THE GUARANTEES, ON THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GO HOME BUT THAT WE WANT THEM OBVIOUSLY TO UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS THAT'S HAPPENING AND WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE

ABOUT

THE THINGS LIKE

GUARANTEES AND THEM MORE INFORMATION

THE BUROPEAN COMMUNITY SCHEME. THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY AND THAT SEE HAPPENING OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, WHERE WE ARE TELLING THE PEOPLE ΤΟ IN THE CAMPS THAT IN PUBLISHING THIS TODAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO CO

WILL TAKE THE CAMPS TONIGHT AND START REMOVING THE FIRST GROUP. IT SOME

HAVE A WEEKS TO BEGIN TO ARRANGE THAT. WE ALSO WANT PEOPIL TO

CHANGES LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT HOW THIS AGREEMENT THE SITUATION THEY ARE IN. FOR THREE YEARS THEY SAT IN THE CAMPS

YOU THAT THEY WERE GOING TO AMERICA. HOPED FALSELY STATEMENT THE AMERICANS MADE ON THE DOUBLE BACKERS LAST

WHO ARE NOT REFUGEES RE-UNDERLINES

I

AND SEEN HAVE

THE WEEK, WHICH GOING TO

PEOPLE THAT

ARE

NOT

AMERICA. THIS NOW MAKES CLEAR THAT NOT ONLY ARE THEY NOT AMERICA, THEY ARE GOING BACK TO VIETNAM.

GOING TO

Q: MR. ASPREY, BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE, MR. JAMES NORMALISATION BETWEEN BAKER, JUST RECENTLY MADE A STATEMENT ON THE

SEEMS VIETNAM AND UNITED STATES, GIVEN SUCH AND SUCH CONDITIONS.

ΤΟ ARE NOT GOING TO ME THAT

THE WHOLE PRESS CONFERENCE YOU IN

THAT ANTICIPATE ANY INFLUENCE FROM THE UNITED STATES BUT CAN YOU SAY

ONE OF THE THE NORMALISATION BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND VIETNAM 18 MOTIVATING FORCE TOWARDS THIS AGREEMENT?

YOU

ALISTAIR ASPREY: I DON'T KNOW, YOU'D REALLY HAVE TO ASK THE VIETNAMESE I DO THOUGH THINK THAT THE PROSPECT THAT AND I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEM. OF NORMALISATION WITH THE UNITED STATES MUST BE SOMETHING THAT IS VERY WELCOME TO THE VIETNAMESE; I THINK THAT THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT HAS THAT IT CLEARLY DECIDED I THINK THIS AGREEMENT IS EVIDENCE OF THIS, WANTS TO NORMALISE ITS RELATIONS NOT ONLY WITH THE UNITED STATES WITH OTHER COUNTRIES, ITS NEIGHBOURS AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE

I THINK THE FACT THAT AS WELL. I THINK ALL THAT IS VERY GOOD NEWS. WE ARE GOING TO SEE IN THE NEAR FUTURE I BELIEVE THE NORMALISATION RELATIONS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE UNITED STATES IS FACTOR IN BRINGING THIS PROBLEM TO AN END.

A

VERY

BUT WORLD

OF

HELPFUL

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