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ROY DOBYNS NBC, AMERICAN TELEVISION:
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Do you happen to know how long the waiting list is for orderly departure? I have heard rumours that it is up to four years
and if that is true would that not encourage people to go back to make the attempt by boat?
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MR. HARTLING:
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We have no idea of the waiting list how many people might apply for it,
I think we have lists presented to the Vietnamese authorities of at least 30,000, well that is one year's, but up to four years I cannot confirm that, but if you think how many might leave in the coming years, well, that might be true and it might not be
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DIANA LIN, ATV:
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What did you discuss with the Hong Kong Government concerning integration as part of a durable programme for the refugees in Hong Kong, and did you discuss anything about what to do with the refugees vis-a-vis 1997?
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MR. HARTLING:
1997 we have not discussed.
UNHRC
is a humanitarian organisation in the United Nations and we live from hand to mouth one year, and 1997 - we hope the problem is over far before that. But of course, we have to be that optimistic, but we have discussed of course, the situation. We have discussed how the Hong Kong authorities have treated the refugees, But first of all we have discussed if it was possible one way or another, to get the resettlement programme to, well, have a little more speed to pick up again and so we can resettle more people, because for some for most of the people here now, the 11,000, there is only one way out and that is to be settled in another country, and then they have to wait until they are accepted and I will do my very best to ask countries who can and will, to
well, accept more people and again, as they did one year ago or two years ago and so on, so we shouldn't forget the last group
of them.
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