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And here I wouldn't like to repeat more problems than to solve.
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has, whenever one brings together people, again to create the condition where as rapidly as possible and as naturally as possible they would be fit to integrate or reintegrate into a normal
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QUESTION:
We would like to know then, do you
think it is time the government reconsidered the closed camp policy?
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This has been an on-going position of UNHCR. The minute when this policy was decided and UNHCR said we were against this, implied that as a matter of fact and as a permanent position we ask the government or anyone applying that policy to reconsider so that here too there is no new position to be taken.
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(By ?) I think you are at the point
now with Indo-Chinese refugees, especially here, that Hanoi doesn't
Western countries or what we call resettle- want to repatriate them.
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a diplomat. I am working for a humanitarian organisation which to be seen like that. Secondly, I wonder how you can come to the conclusion and be so definite on the first, second, and third option as being the situation today. Certainly personally myself I never heard anything as definite as what you said so I am not in a position to answer your question.
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QUESTION:
You say the situation is more flexible
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