TNAG-1529-FCO40-2093-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-general-1986 — Page 130

In terms of thinking about the future, I would like to put

forward a serious

concern and a realistic challenge.

The concerr

well-being cf refugees

in camps.

Withou†

care,

the

relates to the

forgetting the

relative

many vulnerable refugees under our

absence of stark deprivation in Thailand, in constrast

to other parts of the world, has perhaps led us to think that all

But I think we know that all

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"well"

is not well.

In

the

WE must nonetheless

absence. of graphic scenes of deprivation,

contend with problems of dependency and despair that have

charectorised so many refugee situations around the world. What

should focus Om

is a dialogue among all concerned parties On

encourage refugees to help

themselves.

Ways

to

assistance should not merely be indefinite subsistence.

takes

Refugee

This

care of the present but clearly at the risk of destroying

the refugees human dignity and their hopes for the future.

Let

me MOVE

from

my Concern Over

the

present

refugees in Thailand to a challenge for the future.

situation of

In doing so.

I

want to speak frankly.

ar

conducted

in

=

Many of our

vacuum, a bit in

discussions

OR

solutions

the

belief that

good

intentions will somehow persevere that humanitarian efforts 10

the absence

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of political will can succeed. Let me make

that UNHCR would wish nothing more than to see the

clear

humanitariar

process be separated from other considerations, but it is through

and

daunting

challenges

would like to quote

at

a frank assessment of the interplay between the humanitarian

the political that we can be aware of the

that lie ahead. In this connection,

Some length, the recent words of the High Commissioner: