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QUESTIONS & ANSUBRS

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QUESTION.

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TARY:

Ve are ...on that track. I have had two meetings with my Vietnamese opposite number and we are getting well established the essential features for people returning to Vietmax and, se you know, a number have already put themselves forward.. should be and will be

well-treated. That is why I say that I believe the flow will be

moving in the opposite direction quite soon.

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QUEST108:

When will you expect the first batch of Vietnam boat people

to return?

PORRIGE SECRETARY:

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I cannot give you a date for that I am afraid, but it is

quite clear that we do need to achieve that reversal of the flow

because what Geneva endorsed

fact that the great majority of them cannot qualify as refugees and

they have no prospect of reaching anywhere beyond these campe here.

everyone there andormad is that the