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ASK,

YOU

STILI,

PAUL HARRINGTON (HONG KONG STANDARD): I WOULD FIRST, WHEN ARE DETAILS OF THAT SCHEME LIKELY TO BE AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ASK, ON THE QUESTION OF BOAT PEOPLE SAID THAT AN AGREEMENT ON MANDATORY REPATRIATION WITH HANOI IS IN PLACE BUT THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CHOOSES NOT TO ACTIVATE IT AT AMBASSADOR THE MOMENT. YET IT SEEMS THAT MR EMRYS DAVIES, BRITAIN'S IN HANOI, HAS SAID THAT TALKS WERE CONTINUING SLOWLY WITH VIETNAM

DOES REACH

THE QUESTION, REALLY, IS: JUST SUCH AN AGREEMENT. VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT CURRENTLY AGREE TO ACCEPT MANDATORY RETURNS, BRITAIN DECIDES IT IS NECESSARY?

H

TO

THE

IF

AN

MAUDE: ON YOUR

WHEN

YOU EXPECT MR

CAN FIRST POINT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE SCHEME? NOT YET. I MEAN, THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE ON IT AND WE ARE STILL LOOKING TO SEE HOW THE POSSIBILITIES CAN BE SORTED; WHETHER IT IS POSSIBLE TO DO SUCH A SCHEME AS THIS, AND WE WILL SAY SOMETHING FURTHER AS AND WHEN IT IS POSSIBLE TO DO SO.

ON THE

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE AND

LAST YEAR, WHICH KONG AND VIETNAM, OUT NON-REFUGEES.

-

WHICH

MANDATORY REPATRIATION THERE IS IN EXISTENCE AN AGREEMENT, FROM JUNE of PROVIDES

ON A BILATERAL BASIS BETWEEN HONG FOR, ALLOWS FOR

SCREENED THE NON-VOLUNTARY RETURN OF WHAT WE ARE HAVING DISCUSSIONS WITH VIETNAM ABOUT IS THE WAY IN THIS IS CARRIED OUT. AT THE MOMENT THEY HAVE SAID AND THIS WAS WHAT WE WERE DISCUSSING WHEN I WAS IN HANOI TWO MONTHS AGO - THEY HAVE SAID THAT THEY WOULD WANT HONG KONG TO EXCLUDE THE USE OF FORCE IN ADVANCE. то INTERNATIONAL WE HAVE

TO THEM THAT THAT IS CONTRARY EXPLAINED PRACTICE. THIS IS A PROCESS WHICH IS CARRIED OUT THE WORLD, AND IT IS PART OF A COUNTRY'S INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATION ACCEPT BACK THEIR OWN PEOPLE. AND IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE

YOU CANNOT AS YOU ARE BY DEFINITION - WHO ARE NOT VOLUNTEERS, ADVANCE, EXCLUDE THE USE OF FORCE. NOW, WE ARE CONTINUING DISCUSSIONS ON THAT ISSUE; WE HAVE EXPLAINED THE ARGUMENT TO THEM AND I HOPE THAT THEY WILL UNDERSTAND THAT ARGUMENT BEFORE LONG.

DAY-BY-DAY ACROSS

то

IN

PAUL HARRINGTON: SO, IS THERE AN AGREEMENT IN

PLACE AT THE

MOMENT?

MR MAUDE: THERE IS AN AGREEMENT IN PLACE AT THE INDEED. THE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE REPATRIATION ON LAST YEAR WAS CARRIED OUT,

MOMENT, YES DECEMBER 12

VEHEMENTLY

IS

PAUL HARRINGTON: SO, WHY THEN DO THE VIETNAMESE SO SAY THAT THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY MORE MANDATORY RETURNS. IF THERE AN AGREEMENT?

USE MR MAUDE: THEY SAY THAT THEY WON'T ACCEPT THEM UNLESS THE

NOW, WE OF FORCE IS SPECIFICALLY AND ABSOLUTELY RULED OUT IN ADVANCE.

DAY-BY-DAY HAVE EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT THIS IS A PRACTICE CARRIED OUT

OUT OF A ACROSS THE WORLD. IN NINE-HUNDRED-AND-NINETY-NINE CASES

THESE BECAUSE

ARE THOUSAND FORCE IS NOT USED, IT DOES NOT ARISE,

GO PEOPLE

THEY MAY NOT WANT TO

BACK, WHO ACCEPT THE INEVITABILITY.

BUT THEY ARE THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO GO BACK, NONETHELESS ACCEPTING THE INEVITABILITY OF GOING BACK, AND SO THERE IS THE NO RESISTANCE AND NO FORCE ITD. AND THAT WAS THE POSITION WITH REPATRIATION WHICH WAS CARRIED OUT IN DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR. ARE SIMPLY GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF EXPLAINING THIS PROPERLY FULLY TO THE VIETNAMESE AND WE EXPECT THEM TO MEET THEIR INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS LIKE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY DOES.

AND WE

AND

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