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TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1989

"THE SECOND

THAT THERE WERE SUCH CONFERENCE AT GENEVA

POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS TO

GENEROUS

SAY HOW GLAD

MADE IN

I AM THE

RESETTLEMENT PLEDGES

LAST MONTH. BECAUSE THOSE PLEDGES IN RESPECT OF AS REFUGEES WILL BE ON

REFUGEES MEAN THAT ALL THOSE WHO QUALIFY THEIR WAY TO NEW HOMES OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS.

"THAT IS SOME 55.000 PEOPLE IN OVER 14,000 ARE HERE IN HONG KONG. WE

THOSE PEOPLE. HELP FIND NEW HOMES FOR

門

THE REGION AS A WHOLE, OF WHOM

TO ARE LOOKING

THE

ΤΟ UNHCR

"THE PHILIPPINE OFFER OF LAND FOR A PROCESSING CENTRE, TO WHICH FIVE MILLION POUNDS STERLING, THE U.K. IS PREPARED TO CONTRIBUTE THAT IS HK$60 MILLION, SHOULD CONSIDERABLY EASE THE BURDEN KONG.

ON HONG

"MY THIRD REACTION, AND IT IS IS HOW WRONG IT IS FOR SO MANY PEOPLE

TO GO ON

ON COMING HERE REFUGEES

MOST THE

DIFFICULT

TO

STATE,

WHO WILL NEVER QUALIFY AS

IN VAIN.

IS, "BECAUSE THE TRUTH

THAT

THEY

HAVE

NO PROSPECT

THEM

ΤΟ

SPEND YEARS

RECOGNISED, CONFERENCE AS THE GENEVA

ELSE. FOR OF RESETTLEMENT ANYWHERE

THEIR CAMPS IS INTOLERABLE. TO HAVE

TO RETURN HOME IN ONLY FUTURE LIES BACK HOME. THEY MUST BE ALLOWED SAFETY AND IN DIGNITY,

IN

"THAT'S WHY WE HAVE BEEN SEEKING AND HAVE OBTAINED ASSURANCES OF VIETNAM. SO I HOPE THAT BEFORE ON THOSE POINTS FROM THE GOVERNMENT

TO VIETNAM IN SUBSTANTIAL LONG THE NON-REFUEES WILL NUMBERS.

RETURNING BE

THOSE WHO ARE

IN THE INDEED FOR

"AND I URGE AS STRONGLY AS I POSSIDLY CAN STILL THERE NOT TO SET SAIL IN PURSUIT OF A DREAM OF A LIFE WEST WHICH DOES NOT, AND CANNOT, EXIST. IT IS CYNICAL ANYONE TO TRY TO PERSUADE THEM OTHERWISE, BECAUSE THERE IS NO PROSPECT THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE A NORMAL LIFE ELSEWHERE."

IN

REPLY

ΤΟ

QUESTION

FEATURES THAT

ON

A

MANDATORY GEOFFREY SAID: "WE ARE WELL DOWN THAT TRACK. I'VE WITH MY VIETNAMESE OPPOSITE NUMBER. WE ARE GETTING

PEOPLE RETURNING TO THE ESSENTIAL KNOW A NUMBER HAVE ALREADY PUT THEMSELVES FORWARD,

WHY I THAT

SAID TREATED. WILL MOVING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION QUITE SOON.

BE, WELL

IS

SIR

REPATRIATION, HAD TWO MEETINGS WELL ESTABLISHED,

AS YOU VIETNAM,

SHOULD BE, AND BE WILL FLOW

THE

NOTING

THAT

HE COULD

NOT

ACHIEVE

THE

REPATRIATION, SIR GEOFFREY SAID: "IT'S QUITE CLEAR THAT WE DO NEED

THAT REVERSAL OF THE FLOW, BECAUSE WHAT GENEVA ENDORSED, FACT THAT THE GREAT MAJORITY OF THEM CANNOT QUALIFY AS

HAVE NO PROSPECTS OF REACHING ANYWHERE BEYOND

AND

THEY

PAREIZEN

GIVE

THE

DATE

FOR

WAS

REFUGEES,

THESE

CAMPS

HERE,"

THE FOREIGN

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