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are still
/11,000 people are waiting here in Hong Kong; when the arrivals
of refugees have gone down there might be different reasons.
if
We think that one of the reasons might be what we call orderly departures, orderly departure is an arrangement by which people can leave Vietnam, they can get an exit visa from Vietnam and
an entry visa for a country to which they would like to go, and UNHCR is helpful doing the practical arrangements. They use our facilities and in the beginning it started in 1979, a little
more than five years ago, nobody left, we started very, very slowly but the last year it has picked up. In 1984, almost
30,000, it was 29,000 and some hundreds, left Vietnam in this
arrangement which we call "The Orderly Departures Programme". That means they leave by air and not by boat.
I hope that that is some of the explanation as at least the they people who have left by air/are not leaving by boat, but I also
think they inspire other people to wait until they can have an
orderly departure and not have a disorderly. They go from Ho Chi Minh City, they go to Bangkok and from Bangkok all over the
world. But still the problem is for us now, the people who
have arrived and are here and in other areas and countries in
this region in Malaysia, Thailand, etc. and for those who are here especially, the long-stayers, we would like to do whatever
we can and I the UNHCR will continue to monitor this problem
and do whatever we can to urge resettlement countries to still
not forget the last group of refugees, some of them having waited for more than three or four years and that is a very
tragic situation for a human being.
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Let me end by saying we are very grateful to Hong Kong to the authorities, the Government here and to the people because Hong Kong has given asylum and never, never refused to give asylum to refugees coming here and never forced them back against their will, and treated them well, but of course, they would like. as we would like to see a solution a durable solution, for
these refugees. Thank you!
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