TNAG-0892-FCO40-1102-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 106

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CHANNEL.FURTHER, ANY RESPONSE MUST TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE POLITICAL

FACTORS AFFECTING THE PROULEM AS WELL AS THE HUMANITARIAN NEED S.

THE GOVERNMENT FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT THE ROOT CAUSES OF IME WHOLE

REFUGEE PROBLEM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA MUST BE TACKLED, INCLUDING THE

INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EXODUS AND THE GROSS AND PERSISTENT

VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN ALL TÆ COUNTRIES-V IET NAM, KAMPUCHEA

AND LAOS-FROM WHICH REFUGEES ARE STILL FLEEING. AS REGARDS VIET

NAM, IT NOW APPEARS CLEAN THAT THE HANOI GOVERNMENT HAS EMBARKED

ON A SYSTEMATIC POLICY TO EXPELL, ON ETHNIC GROUNDS, A WHOLE SEGMENT

OF ITS POPULATION, MOST OF WHICH HAS BEEN RESIDENT IN VIET NAM FOR

GENERA. LONS. WHILE CANADA SUPPORTS THE RIGHTS OF ALL THE PEOPLES

1 DEPART FROM THEIR COLTATES OF ORIGIN, THIS MUST BE DONE IN AN

CALERLY AND HUMANE WAY WHICH DOSS NOI/NOT INVOLVE PHYSICAL LANGER

OR INT IN IDATION AND WHICH DOES NOT/ROT AMOUNT TO ACTIVE CAPUL SION.

1 MUST BE MADE VERY CLEAN TO THE GOVERNMENT OF VIET NAM THAT THE

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FINDS ENTIRELY UNACCEPTABLE A POLICY OF

EXPULSION WHICH HAS CAUSED GREAT NUMAR SUFFERING AND AS CONFRONTED

CONCERNED COUNTRIES EVERYWHERE WITA HUMANITARIAN PROBLEM OF

LAUNTING PROPORTIONS. TO THIS END, THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA ILL BE

MAKING THESE VIEWS O.EAK TO THE GOVERNMENT OF VIET NAM BOTH

BILATERALLY AND MULTILATERALLY.WITH THIS IN MIND, CANADA INTENDS

10 SUPPORT THE CONVENING OF AN INTERNATIONAL MEET ING, UNDER THE

AUSPICES OF THE U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL, WHICH WOULD EXAMINE THE

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