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TRANSCRIPT E SELECT COMMITTER OI BOIG KUNG

12 JUB 1989

SIR DAVID WILSON:

If I could say, Xr Lester, on that that we in Hong

It is a

Kong do not like running camps of this sort.

problem which has been thrust on us which has tried the

patience of the whole community. As a Government, to have

to run these sort of detention centres, and I do not

believe that they are that appalling incidentally, but to

run any sort of detention centre goes right against the

grain and that is why we are looking for international

arrangements to deal with this problez.

MR LESTER:

to see

Well that is the big question, what would you like

come out of Geneva this week, the conference that

you are just going to?

SIR DAVID VILSON:

What we would like to see is arrangements first of

all to speed up resettlement, because resettlement has

been appallingly slow. We have thousands of people who

have stayed in our refugee camps, and these are now open

camps, for 5 years or more waiting for resettlement

despite promises from the international community.

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