TNAG-1531-FCO40-2095-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-general-1987 — Page 31

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MR HOCKE:

Well, harsh word or not, I think UNHCR

has been quite clear so I am also quite clear in saying that not only 24 basically we don't encourage closed camp policy but we are against

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and as I think that we said so in the past, so there is no reason for me to say something else on that but this certainly will not come to 27 you as a surprise or new move on the part of UNHCR.

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This being said, one could even go a step further in looking at camps as such or whenever just people are brought together and have

So here, too, I to live over long period of time in confined areas.

would say this, the whole problematic of keeping people together has also a lot to do with the length of time these people have to stay and for us to underline and possibly to take more even than in the

past and the real problem is the search for solution and that in terms of solution one shouldn't just try to deal or to get fixed with only

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