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QUESTION:

This is what a number of people have

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said, it is not just my view.

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MR HOCKE:

As you know, the problem is not so much for the High Commissioner to visit all camps or only one camp.

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is important is what we do permanently every day and you know that our delegate here in Hong Kong for years have been now visiting all camps and do so permanently, so that whether I visit this camp or that camp doesn't make too much of a difference. Certainly I would have liked

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executive committee of UNHCR force me to restrict myself to this short

visit or not to come at all.

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QUESTION:

Your predecessor had some harsh words

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to say about closed camps, Mr Hartley. humane way to keep refugees?

Do you feel that they are a

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