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THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES AND THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT
1. The Agreement provides a role for the UNHCR in arranging
emigration for people who already have resettlement offers from
relatives abroad. At present levels of outflow, the 20,000-30,000
people who may qualify equal barely two weeks' outflow of boat
people. The Vietnamese have said that there is no point in
any conference that does more than discuss the implementation of
the Agreement. They will evidently make use of the Agreement
to "prove" that they can work with the UNHCR; but there is no
reason to expect that they will not continue to expel boat people
at great benefit to their exchequer.
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