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During the meeting it was noted that

ICEC has already 430,000 Indochinese on their index cards and will initiate a full computer registration of all refugees in Southeast Asia;

40,000 refugees on the Anambas Islands, Indonesia will be trans- ferred to Galang or Bintan Islands before the winter monsoon starts. A refugee processing centre is to be established on one of these islands and it is hoped that the first 2,000 refu- gees will be transferred to a RPC by mid-November;

a second refugee processing centre will probably be created on Palawan Island, Philippines later this year.

The ICEM Director informed the group that ICEM movements of Indo- chinese refugees for permanent resettlement during the last four months of 1979 would total at least 75,000 and that 200,000 movements were pro- jected for 1980.

U.N. CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT

The Deputy Director of ICEM, Ur. G. Maselli, and the Chief of the Department of Latin American Programmes, Mr. R. Kozak attended the U.N. Conference on Science and Technology for Development in Vienna. Mr. Maselli had the opportunity to address the participants and spoke in particular on the brain-drain problem, which as Э reverse transfer of technology was a major concern of developing countries. He offered ICEM's cooperation in future international efforts to compensate for this brain-drain through practical measures such as promoting the return of scientists, professional personnel and technicians to their countries of origin, based on ICE experience in carrying out return-of-talent programmes from the industrialized countries of Europe to Latin America. A document on Transfer of Technology through Migration describing ICEM's programmes for human resources development was submitted to the conference.

RETURN-OF-TALENT TO LATIN AMERICA

In July three Latin American professionals returned to their home country through the ICEH/Federal Republic of Germany Reintegration Pro- gramme. A Chilean-torn praduate of the University of Chile in Santiago, who studied in Germany and received his diploma in mathematics from the University of Hamburg and later a PhD from the University of Saarbrücken, has taken up a teaching position at the University of Chile in Santiago. His wife is a German music teacher. An Argentine aeronautical engineer, who obtained his degree from the National University of La Plata and a two-year scholarshin at the German Research Institute for Aircraft and Space Technology, has been placed by ICE with the Argentine Air Force's National Commission for Space Research, A Colombian national, with a bachelor's degree in physical education from the University of Bogota, a master's degree from Springfield College in the United States and a scholarship from the German Sport University in Cologne, has now been placed as a physical education professor at the University of Valle in Cali, Colombia.

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