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FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1989

HE SAID THE ONLY WAY VIETNAMESE COULD RESETTLE

OVERSEAS

THROUGH THE ORDERLY DEPARTURE PROGRAMME AND THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY.

"THE OTHER PROSPECT REPATRIATED TO VIETNAM." HE SAID.

REMAINING IN IS

A CAMP

UNTIL

WAS

YOU'RE

STEPS

RESETTLEMENT

SIR DAVID SAID THE CONFERENCE DID MAKE SOME SIGNIFICANT FORWARD IN SETTING OUT THAT MESSAGE AND DEALING WITH THE OF GENUINE REFUGEES.

——

GO

KONG

AND THE HE SAID A PRACTICAL POINT HE MADE IN THE CONFERENCE

WAS THAT HONG KONG COULD NOT SIMPLY FOREIGN SECRETARY ALSO MADE ON WITH THE SITUATION THAT HUNDREDS OF BOAT PEOPLE CAME TO HONG AT A TREMENDOUS RATE.

HE

INTERNATIONAL

SIR DAVID SAID ON THE QUESTION OF INVOLUNTARY REPATRIATION DISAPPOINTED THAT THERE WERE LARGE SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO SIMPLY WOULD NOT FACE FACTS.

WAS

"AND

OF

AND

WHO ON THE ONE HAND WILL SAY THAT THERE'S NO QUESTION RESETTLEMENT IN THIRD COUNTRIES FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT REFUGEES,

TO VIETNAM ON THE OTHER HAND WILL SAY THAT THEY SHOULD NOT GO BACK UNLESS THEY POSITIVELY VOLUNTEER TO DO SO.

"ΤΟ MY MIND,

THAT IS ILLOGICAL, AND INDEED, I

THINK

IT IS

INHUMANE.

"BECAUSE WHAT IT IS SAYING IS THAT THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD PILE UP IN CAMPS AROUND THE REGION," HE SAID.

SIMPLY

OF FAMILIES FROM

PEOPLE

SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THERE WAS A MOVEMENT VIETNAM AND MANY OF THOSE WHO FLED THE COUNTRY WERE YOUNG HALF OF THEM AGED 20 AND UNDER AND A THIRD OF THEM AGED 15 AND UNDER.

"SO WHAT THAT SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL OPINION IS SAYING: THESE YOUNG PEOPLE AND CHILDREN SHOULD SIMPLY REMAIN IN CAMPS FOR YEAR AFTER OUGHT YEAR BECAUSE THE WORLD COMMUNITY WON'T FACE THE FACT THAT THEY TO GO BACK TO THEIR OWN HOMELAND UNDER ACCEPTABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, GOVERNOR SAID.

"

THE

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