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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1989

ASKED HOW SOON HONG KONG COULD EXPECT TO SEE BENEFITS FROM DECIDED WOULD CONFERENCE, SIR DAVID SAID HE HOPED WHAT HAD BEEN SPEED UP THE PROCESS OF RESETTLEMENT OF GENUINE REFUGEES.

THE NOW

IN THE THEN BE SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF ITS

HE

CENTRE ADDED THAT IF THE REGIONAL PROCESSING PHILIPPINES COULD BE GOT INTO PLACE QUICKLY, HONG KONG NOULD

A VERY ABLE TO SEND TO THE PHILIPPINES REFUGEES.

"THAT WOULD RELIEVE SUFFERING ON ACCOMMODATION.

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GREAT

DEAL OF

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PRESSURE

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I WOULD HOPE TO SEE SOMETHING HAPPENING ON IN THE REASONABLY NEAR FUTURE, HE SAID.

THOSE TWO THINGS

"

NON-REFUGEES MUST GO BACK TO VIETNAM

A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES HAVE NOW

REALISED THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FACT THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREENED OUT AS NON-REFUGEES HAVE SIMPLY GOT TO BE DEALT WITH, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID IN GENEVA TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SPEAKING TO REPORTERS SHORTLY BEFORE THE END OF THE TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES, SIR DAVID SAID WAYS MUST BE FOUND IN WHICH THESE PEOPLE COULD GO HOME.

SUPPORT FROM

THERE HAD BEEN VERY STRONG STATEMENTS OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND A NUMBER OF OTHER COUNTRIES, HE ADDED.

THE GOVERNOR SAID TALKS HAD BEEN HELD WITH THE WAYS TO BUILD ON AND ENLARGE THE EXISTING PROGRAMME PEOPLE TO VIETNAM.

VIETNAMESE ON

FOR RETURNING

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HE HOPED THAT THE THIRD ROUND OF TALKS WITH THE VIETNAMESE, EXPERT LEVEL, COULD BE HELD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO WORK OUT A PROCESS OF GETTING BACK TO VIETNAM PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT GENUINE REFUGEES, BUILDING ON THE EXISTING PROGRAMME.

"I HOPE WE WILL BE ABLE TO EDGE OUR WAY FORWARD, HE ADDED.

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT ECONOMIC

ASSISTANCE FOR VIETNAM HAD NOT BEEN DISCUSSED.

HAD

SIR DAVID ALSO TOLD REPORTERS THAT ALTHOUGH THE CONFERENCE NOT YET ENDED, A VERY LARGE PROGRAMME FOR THE RESETTLEMENT OF GENUINE REFUGEES HAD ALREADY EMERGED.

/ME SAID