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have the honour to refer to the Notes on Indo-Chinese Refugees in South-East Asia which I shared with you in 1983 and again last year recall that I emphasized the need for continuing and even increased steps to

You inky be taken by the international community if the problem was not to become institutionalized.

What has been achieved to date is ingressive. Some 1.1 million person? :ve arrived in countries in the area from the three countries of Indo-China 7 the last ten years, There persone have been regarded as being of concer .... sakuz end aimust one million of them have benefited from one of the thr traditional zable solutions, mainly resettlement in third countries. 17 estimated US $790 million in international aid has been channelled througe UNICH for these persons, in addition to even larger amounts provided directly by countries of asylum and of resettlement.

The past year has seen a continued positive response in a number o{ Some 33,000 Vietnamese were resettied from the region du the cou 14. and there was a net reduction of almost 19,000 Kampucheans as

resettlement, Taternational co-operation also enabled more persons in opart from Viet Nam under the Orderly Departure Programme in 148 than previous year.

while the 80sle of ta. - Jonti. ving international burden-sharing t/ bbout recent prevedeni, and Jedlon available at this time makes 1. 36. :1ikely that propca.: future quocae will be adequate to resolve tho penti articules in the light of continuing influxes. Some 160,000 refugees remain in osaps in South-Bast Asia. (te dejority of whom have been there number of years. The Papresent

urall reduction of enly some 8,200

persons, oc 5.3% sioea 18 end of 193%.

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Dame Anne Murbur

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