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Mr Segar SEAD
UNHCR PAPER ON SOUTH EAST ASIAN REFUGEES
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Thank you for your minute of 28 September.
I agree that the points in para. 5 of your minute could form the basis of a UK line in any further discussion or formal reply to Mr Moussalli's letter of 1 August. UKMis Geneva will be able to decide how best this should be done. Your points might therefore be in corporated in your reply to Dame Anne Warburton's letter of,9 August to Mr Hartland-Swann.
2. HMG's position on the resettlement of Indo-Chinese, particularly Vietnamese refugees, is well-known to UNHCR but I see no harm in confirming once again that a new quota is unlikely at this stage. Mr Moussalli emphasises in his paper that unrealistic expectations of resettlement discourage refugees from considering voluntary repatriation. This might also be said of governments in the countries of first asylum who have the primary responsibility for finding regional political solutions which will bring about either voluntary repatriation or local integration. In terms of UNHCR doctrine, which is supported by UK voluntary agencies, both solutions are preferable to resettlement in third countries. If proposals for repatriation or local integration are both workable and durable, I would agree that they should be supported with UK humanitarian aid funds.
3. I sent to you separately a copy of our General Brief for EXCOM (IOC (83) 217). The sections on voluntary repatriation and Indo-China were drafted from your earlier contributions. If you agree, I could send a copy of your minute of 28 September to Mr Adams (UK Mission) for use as a supplementary brief, if detailed discussion on Moussalli document arises at EXCOM.
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D J Peate
5 October 1983
Mr Montgomery-Pott (Home Office
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