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TRANSCRIPT B: FOREIGN SKC
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P.C. BONG KONG
4 JULY 1989
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FORRIGE SECRETARY (CONTD):
Point number twa: the United States has got to follow
Ir.
through the logic of its own message on Vietnamese boat people.
Bagleberger, in the speech that he made in Geneva at the conference
the other day, said as follows:
"Those who flee clandestinely and cannot establish
a well-founded fear of persecution must understand
that such flight no longer leads to resettlement.
Such persons will face an indefinite stay in a
bolding camp. It is important for those thinking
of fleeing the former North Vietnam to realise that
most will fail to qualify as refugees and will
therefore not be eligible for resettlement.
There you have the representative of the United States telling the
Geneva Refugee Conference that anyone who leaves Vietnam will ba
stopped in Hong Kong, will have no prospect of going on to the rest
of the world and yet the United States, almost alone in that
Conference, was unwilling to accept the logic of its own argument
and recognised that the only place in which Vietnamese people could
look forward to a future 16 back in their own country. So that is
the second most important thing the United States can do.
almost alone in that Conference in failing to follow through the
It was
logic of Ir. Bagleberger's speech, so please urge them to do just
that!
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