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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3,

1988

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ANOTHER GROUP OF VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE SCREENED

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PROCEDURES SEEKERS

FOR WHO

THE GOVERNMENT

HAS COMPLETED

SCREENING ITS VIETNAMESE ASYLUM HAVE ARRIVED IN HONG KONG AFTER JUNE 15 THIS YEAR.

DETERMINING THE STATUS OF ANOTHER 41

OF THE GROUP SCREENED, ONE PERSON WAS FOUND

A REFUGEE CAMP AND HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED TO OVERSEAS.

TO BE A REFUGEE

TO PRIOR

RESETTLEMENT

BE

WERE

CENTRES

THE OTHER 40, COMPRISING EIGHT GROUPS AND 19 INDIVIDUALS,

IN HELD

DETENTION WILL FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES. THEY PENDING REPATRIATION TO VIETNAM.

ASYLUM SEEKERS

"DETERMINATION NOTICES HAVE BEEN SERVED ON THE BY IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT STAFF," A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID.

"THOSE FOUND NOT TO BE REFUGEES

OF ADVISED

ORDINANCE,

THEIR

AS

HAVE BEEN UNDER THE IMMIGRATION RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE RESULT WELL AS THEIR RIGHT TO LEGAL ADVICE IN PREPARING THEIR OBJECTIONS.

"THE UNHCR WILL MAKE ARRANGEMENTS TO ENSURE THAT IS MADE AVAILABLE TO ALL THOSE WHO NEED IT."

LEGAL ADVICE

SCREENING PROCEDURES WERE THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE

DETERMINING REFUGEE CRITERIA FOR BASED ON THE UNHCR PROCEDURES AND

THE 1967 PROTOCOL, STATUS ESTABLISHED UNDER THE 1951 CONVENTION AND

OF

SEEKERS ASYLUM AND TOOK INTO ACCOUNT THE SPECIAL SITUATION VIETNAM.

"STAFF OF THE UNHCR WERE PRESENT DURING SOME OF THE

AS OBSERVERS," HE SAID.

FROM

INTERVIEWS

SO FAR, SCREENING PROCEDURES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED FOR 89 SEEKERS. OF THEM, EIGHT WERE FOUND TO BE REFUGEES WHILE 81 WERE NOT TO THE REFUGEES.

ASYLUM

FOUND

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