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an appeals procedure.
DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)
Those screened out have recourse to
Partly because of staff shortages,
the procedures are now very slow. At the current rate,
it would take many years before everyone is screened.
If the screening and repatriation policy is to be
credible, procedures will have to be speeded up and
additional qualified staff will have to be found.
may launch an international appeal for funds for this
purpose, to which we should be ready to respond
positively.
UNHCR
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Another
(a) further expenditure in connection with the
Refugee Conference: the Conference may agree to new
measures to alleviate the problem, which would require
substantial additional expenditure. One possibility
would be a Regional Holding Centre somewhere in the
region to accommodate those screened out as non-refugees,
pending their eventual return to Vietnam.
possibility is the establishment of an Overspill Centre
in the region for new arrivals or refugees awaiting
resettlement, to alleviate the pressure on Hong Kong.
Major financial inducements would, however, be necessary
to persuade any government to agree to the establishment
of such a centre on its territory.
Some of these costs, should they arise, would
properly fall to the ODA, since they would involve
emergency assistance of a humanitarian nature or would be
channelled through the UNHCR to help with matters that
fall within the UNHCR's mandate.
This would mean a
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