IT WOULD HAVE TO BE FOR NEW REFUGEES ONLY: OTHERWISE THERE WAS THE RISK THA IT WOULD SIMPLY BECOME A DUMPING OR CUND FOR REFUGEES ALREADY-IN THAILAND AND MALAYSTA
(B) THE SIZE OF THE CNTRE. SHOULD IT BE LARGE ENOUGH TO COPE WITH ESTIMATED FUTURE FLOW OF REFUGEES UESTION MARK.
(C) RESETTLEMENT GUARANTEES:
(D) THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CENTRE AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELATIONS DET EEN THE HOST COUNTRY AS SOVEREICH POWER AND THE UNHCR WHO WOULD NO DOUBT BE EXPECTED TO PLAY THE MAJOR ROLE IN ITS RUNNING (E) THE CODST AND THE METHOD OF FINANCING IT.
4. HARTLING SAID THAT HIS ORGANISATION WERE POSITIVE TOWARDS ALL SOLUTIONS' THAT SEEMED LIKELY TO HELP THEIR PROBLEM. BUT THEY COULD DO VERY LITTLE WITHOUT THE DIRECT HELP OF GOVERNMENTS AND IT WOULD DE PREMATURE TO DISCUSS PRACTICALITIES UNTIL IT WAS KNOWN WHERE IT WAS PREFERED THAT SUCH A CENTRE SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED. HOWEVER, THE MAJOR POINT WHICH HE WISHED TO MAKE AT THIS STAGE WAS THAT HE REMAINED OF THE VIEW EXPRESSED DURING DECEMBER CONSULTATIONS THAT IT WOULD BE WRONG TO ESTABLISH SUCH A CENTRE UNLESS THERE WERE IRON-CLAD GUARANTEES OF FINAL RESETTLEMENT. IF THERE WERE A HARD CORE OF REFUGEES FOR WHOM NO PLACES COULD BE FOUND, WE RISKED CREATING A VERY DANGEROUS PROBLEM FOR OURSELVES IN THE LONG TERM (CF THE PALESTINEAN REFUGEES). A TIME FRAME WOULD HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED INCLUDING A MAXIMUM PERIOD (SAY TWO YEARS) FOR WHICH A REFUGEE WOULD REMAIN AT THE CENTRE. THE QUEUE MUST BE KEPT MOVING, GOVERNMENTS MUST BE READY TO GIVE UP THEIR PRESENT PRINCIPLES OF SCREENING.
5. THOMSON (AUSTRALIA) SAID THAT HIS COVERNMENT, WHILE THEY RECOGN- ISED THAT THE SCHEME MIGHT RELIEVE THE IMEDIATE PRESSURE ON THE COUNTRIES OF FIRST ASYLUM, WERE IMPRESSED BY THE CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTIES WHICH IT WOULD ENTAIL. THEY CONTINUED TO BELIEVE THAT THE MAJOR EFFORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD BE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE SPEEDING UP OF THE PROCESSING OF THE REFUGEES.
6. HESSEL(FRANCE) THOUGHT IT WOULD NOT BE WISE TO ENCOURAGE THE SCHEME. BUT IF THE ASEAN COUNTRIES PUT IT FORWARD WE COULD NOT AVOID GIVING IT SERIOUS CONSIDERATION. HIS GOVERNMENT WERE WORRIED ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES. IT WOULD IN ANY CASE REQUIRE CAREFUL NEGOTIATION WITH THE HOST GOVERNMENT, PRESUMABLE THE INDONESIANS, AND MUCH WOULD DEPEND ON THE GENEROSITY** OF THE TERMS THEY WERE PREPARED TO OFFER.
7. I SAID THAT PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR
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