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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1991

NEW

Q: (CANTONESE) I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY YOU ARE REPATRIATING THESE.

HERE FOR ARRIVALS INSTEAD AND NOT REPATRIATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE STAYED SUCH A LONG TIME, CAN I HAVE THE ANSWER IN CANTONESE PLEASE?

I

WE

BATCH BE

REPATRIATING ALL THE AGREEMENT STATES THAT WE WILL BE A: (CANTONESE) NON-REFUGEES, ALL OF THEM WILL BE REPATRIATED. THE FIRST STEP, AS EXPLAINED LAST WEEK AFTER WE OBTAINED THE AGREEMENT, THE FIRST

TO WILL BE

THEY WILL BE THE FIRST BATCH THE DOUBLE BACKERS. REPATRIATED AND, AS I SAID, THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE PHASED OUT, WE WILL WE BE WORKING STEP BY STEP. THE FIRST STEP HAS ALREADY BEEN STRIDED. WILL BE SENDING BACK THE DOUBLE BACKERS FIRST. THE SECOND STEP BE

THESE PEOPLE WHO ARRIVED AFTER MIDNIGHT, THE NEW ARRIVALS; WILL BE REPATRIATED AND THEN THE THIRD STEP WILL BE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN THE CAMPS THE NON REFUGEES,

J

WILL THEY

Q: DO YOU SEE THE CLIMATE BEING RIGHT NOW IN VIETNAM THAT WE WOULD SEE SEEING THIS TYPE OF AGREEMENT SPREADING OVER OTHER PARTS OF ASTA AND

AND OTHER THE MANDATORY REPATRIATION OF REFUGEES SAY FROM MALAYSIA

COUNTRIES?

KONG.

THE VIETNAMESE CLINTON LEEKS: HAVING MYSELF BEEN IN THE TALKS WITH

THINK SINCE OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS THE IMPRESSION THAT WE'VE HAD I

WE THE END OF SEPTEMBER, WHICH I THINK IS REFLECTED IN THIS AGREEMENT

BY THE NOW HAVE, IS A GREATER WILLINGNESS, A GREATER UNDERSTANDING

OF VIETNAMESE

THE IMPLICATIONS OF

IS WHAT FOR THEM

OBVIOUSLY CLANDESTINE EMIGRATION AND THE BURDENS THAT IT PLACES ON OTHER PLACES,

OBVIOUSLY AT THE MOMENT IN THE CASE OF HONG PARTICULARLY

ARRANGEMENT WHAT WE ARE WORKING AT OBVIOUSLY IS A BI-LATERAL THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CPA BUT PARTICULARLY 1F WE SHOW THAT WE CAN THIS WORK AND OBVIOUSLY HAVING SIGNED IT WE BELIEVE THAT WE WILL

MODEL FOR WORK, I CAN'T SEE ANY REASON WHY IT SHOULDN'T ACT AS A OTHER PLACES IN THE REGION, ALTHOUGH OF COURSE, THEIR BURDENS ARE MUCH SMALLER AT THE MOMENT THAN OURS IS.

Q:

ON

-

NOW

WITHIN

MAKE

MAKE

LOT OF

THE

I WAS WONDERING IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE GOING TO PLACE A

AND LEAD WEIGHT

PEOPLE VOLUNTEERING TO GO BACK TO VIETNAM MANDATORY REPATRIATION FOR THE VERY RESISTANT SORT OF PEOPLE. DO HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT PROPORTION YOU ARE HOPING WILL ACTUALLY TO GO BACK AND SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE?

YOU

VOLUNTEER

PEOPLE ILLEGAL

ALISTAIR ASPREY: I THINK AS A GOVERNMENT, AND I GUESS PROBABLY IN HONG KONG GENERALLY WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED IF EVERY

ON WHAT IMMIGRANT IN HONG KONG VOLUNTEERS TO GO HOME. I CAN'T SEE OTHER BASIS ONE COULD CONTINUÊ TO MOVE FORWARD IN TRYING TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. SADLY, I GUESS, THAT HISTORY SHOWS US THAT THAT'S NOT LIKELY TO BE TRUE WHICH IS WHY WE HAVE THIS AGREEMENT AND WHY WE ARE GOING TO CERTAIN BR MOVING FORWARD AND SHOWING THAT IF PEOPLE DON'T OPT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, AND WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING WITH THEM OVER THE NEXT DETAILS FEW WEEKS AND IN PARALLEL, WE ARE GOING TO BE DISCUSSING THE

BUT IF PEOPLE OVER OF IMPLEMENTATION WITH THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT; A PERIOD OF TIME DON'T AGREE TO GO HOME VOLUNTARILY THEN WE WILL

REMOVE ΤΟ

BUT THE ARRANGEMENTS

THEM AS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

AND VOLUNTEER TO GO HOME THE BETTER IT IS FOR THEM BETTER IT IS FOR HONG KONG QUITE HONESTLY.

PEOPLE THAT

MAKE

MORE THE

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