TNAG-1903-FCO40-2705-Hong-Kong-cabinet-meetings-on-Vietnamese-refugees-1990 — Page 111

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ANNEX C

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE: CRITICAL PATH TO FIRST DEPORTATION OF VBPS

1.

'X' Candidates now cleared for repatriation.

Need for continued pressure on

Counselling to achieve

acquiescence to continue.

UNHCR to monitor non-volunteers

after return

2.

Sign Agreed Minute on modalities of repatriation

Desireable: achieve UNHCR

under 26 June Agreement

with Vietnamese.

agreement at SC3 to accept monitoring role over non-

volunteers

3.

Notify Vietnamese

authorities of proposed

aircraft flight time etc.

Hong Kong to proceed with

final identification of

candidates for first

deportation.

4. Hong Kong to provide HMG

with careful assessment of

likelihood that first

deportation exercise will

succeed.

5. First deportation.

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