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would keep the UNHCR involved and is
likely to be acceptable to it.
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(d) To allow UNHCR access to all refugees' as
and when it suited them. This would keep
UNHCR involved and would meet with its with its
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approval.
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It should, however, he explained that providing UNHCR
access to all or only some of the refugees in no way
means that they will be resettled. In the light of
current resettlement prospects, only a limited number
of refugees are likely to be accepted by resettlement
countries even if UNHCR does acknowledge their refugee
status. Thus only those refugees actually selected
for overseas resettlement would leave the closed camps
the remainder would continue to be detained.
options (c) and (d), the deterrent effect is still quite
Thus in
considerable, combining as it does the loss of freedom
and little hope of resettlement.
It is therefore
recommended that subject to its acceptability to the
UNHCR, options) (c) should be adopted.
Separation
11.
In order to make for sound management and
to reduce the opportunities for militant refugees using families as
protection when management attempts to control illegal
activities (experience with ex-China cases shows this),
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