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7. The Governement of Viet Nam also took note of bilateral concerns that were conveyed to it through UNHCR and undertook to look into them and resolve them as appropriate.

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Concrete proposals for further technical improvements in the fields of medical processing and logistics were made by ICM to (and attached to the summary of discussions of) the Sub-Committee on Departures and Repatriation held in Bangkok on 11 April 1989 and need not be repeated here.

9. In line with the spirit and letter of the draft CPA, the information campaign outlined in Section I above would have greater awareness of regular departure procedures and migration programmes as one of its primary goals.

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III. Promotion of Voluntary Repatriation

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The draft CPA foresees repatriation as an appropriate solution for persons determined not to be refugees and recommends that, in the first instance, every effort be made to encourage the voluntary return of rejected cases. The promotion of voluntary repatriation will require a multi-faceted approach which includes individual and group counselling, special accommodation arrangements for rejected cases, appropriate educational programmes to facilitate reintegration, and reintegration assistance. Proposals in each of these areas are outlined below and are, mutatis mutandis, also applicable to Laotians.

Counselling

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Intensive counselling will be provided to 11 new arrivals both on a group and on an individual case basis. From their time of arrival, asylum-seekers will be informed of the existence of determination procedures and of the voluntary repatriation programme. Counselling in respect of voluntary repatriation will precede the determination process and be intensified thereafter.

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Counselling in the first asylum situation will include the following

elements:

a) Briefing of all new arrivals on a group and individual family basis

concerning the determination process and the existence of the voluntary repatriation programme. This briefing will include full details of application procedures for repatriation and of the provisions and guarantees for the return, reception and reintegration of repatriants. Printed hand-outs will be prepared in Vietnamese and provided to all new arrivals. Within one week of arrival, all groups of new arrivals will have been seen by a UNHCR/NGO counsellor. By the end of the first month, all asylum-seekers will have had an individual family contact session with the counsellor.

b)

As early as possible after denial of appeals under determination procedures, all individual cases/families will have a counselling session. Individual reasons for departure from country of origin will be determined and a case dossier established. Reasons for