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REC
2 1 JUL 1986
CF 16003OZ JULY 66
INFO ROUTINE UKMIS GENEVA, HANOI, KUALA LUMPUR, HONG KONG
INC:
INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES IN THAILAND
1.
AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COMMITTEE FOR COORDINATION OF SERVICES TO DISPLACED PERSONS IN THAILAND (CCSDPT) ON 11 JULY SEVERAL SPEAKERS STRESSED THE NEED FOR ALTERNATIVE DURABLE SOLUTIONS (IN ADDITION TO RESETTLEMENT) TO THE PROBLEM OF INDO- CHINESE REFUGEES.
2. REFERRING TO THE SCREENING PROGRAMME FOR LAOTIAN REFUGEES, SQUADRON LEADER PRASONG, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL, STRESSED THAT THE 1100 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO HAD SO FAR BEEN IDENTIFIED AS NOT MEETING THE CRITERIA FOR POLITICAL REFUGEES WOULD BE FORCIELY REPATRIATED IF THE LPDR DID NOT HONOUR THEIR AGREEMENT WITH THE UNHCR TO TAKE THEM BACK. OTHER SPEAKERS REFERRED TO THE DETERRENT EFFECT WHICH THE SCREENING PROGRAMME HAD HAD.
3.
PRASONG ALSO CONFIRMED THAT KHAO I DANG WOULD CLOSE AT THE END OF 1986 AND THAT ANY REFUGEES WHICH HAD NOT BEEN ACCEPTED FOR RESETTLEMENT BY THAT TIME WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE UNBRO
BORDER CAMPS.
4.
FULL REPORT FOLLOWS BY BAG.
TONKIN
BOAT PEOPLE
LIMITED
STAD
HKD
UND
FED
NEWS D
MARD
PS
PS/MR RENTON
SIR W HARDING
MR SLATER MR WILSON
ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION
BOAT PEOPLE
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