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(2) FORMULATE AND AGREE ON A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION
TO DEAL WITH THE VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN ALL ITS ASPECTS INCLUDING DEPARTURES AND EXPANSION OF ORDERLY DEPARTURES AND REPATRIATION OF NON-REFUGEES AS WELL AS RESETTLEMENT OF BONA FIDE REFUGEES WITHIN A SPECIFIC TIME FRAME.
(3) OBTAIN COMMITMENTS FROM ALL PARTIES CONCERNED OF
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUCH A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF ACTION.''
4. THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE UNDER AUSPICES OF THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL COULD BE HELD EARLY NEXT YEAR.
THE CONFERENCE SHOULD BE EXACTLY LIKE THE 79 GENEVA CONFERENCE, ALTHOUGH
IT WAS ACCEPTED THAT SOLUTIONS
TO THE REFUGEE PROBLEM WOULD BE
DIFFERENT
AND SHOULD REVIEW THE 79 CONFERENCE
THE INITIATIVE FOR THE CONFERENCE COULD COME FROM
THE WN, UNHCR OR OTHERS.
5. SAID PROVIDED US WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE VIETNAMESE (AND OTHER INDO-CHINESE) REFUGEE SITUATION IN INDONESIA.
6.
THERE WERE 1938 VIETNAMESE AT GALANG IN AUGUST.
ABOUT 100 KAMPUCHEANS IN A NUMBER OF PLACES.
THERE WERE TWO BOATLOADS OF NEW ARRIVALS (ONE WITH
39, THE OTHER WITH 41) IN AUGUST - BOTH BOATS HAD BEEN PUSHED QEE AND SENT BACK TO BIDONG BUT HAD BEEN ACCEPTED WHEN THEY RETURNED.
ANOTHER SOURCE OF REFUGEES (IN JUNE) HAD BEEN VIETNAMESE THROWN INTO THE WATER FOUR MILES OFF NATUNA ISLAND
FROM A SHUTTLE BOAT' WITH ONLY A BAMBOO LIFE-PRESERVER TO HELP THEM STAY AFLOAT - 21 SURVIVORS HAD BEEN MOVED TO GALANG. HE CLAIMED THIS WAS THE THIRD SUCH SHUTTLE GROUP LANDED SINCE MAY AND SUGGESTED THIS MARKED A POSSIBLE SMALL-SCALE RE-EMERGENCE OF THIS APPROACH WHICH HAD BEEN DORMANT FOR SOME YEARS.
HE SAID IT WAS BECOMING INCREASINGLY URGENT TO FIND A SOLUTION TO
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