TNAG-1911-FCO40-2715-Financial-assistance-from-the-UK-Government-to-Vietnamese-re-1989 — Page 79

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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret

(d)

DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)

Mandatory repatriation: financial assistance to

Vietnam

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Confidential

Restricted

Unclassified

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In order to ensure the continued cooperation of

Vietnam over non voluntary repatriation, it will be

necessary to provide additional financial assistance

to Vietnam in the form of aid to the communities to

which the boat people would return. The amount

involved would be the subject of negotiation between

ourselves and the Vietnamese. Our aim would

obviously be to keep this as small as possible

But

I believe that a sum of at least £5 million will be

needed if it is to make any political impact on the

Vietnamese Government.

Such a payment would be

spread over a number of years and would of course be

subject to there being a steady and substantial flow

of non-volunteers to Vietnam. We do not expect

expenditure under this heading to be necessary in

the current financial year. Our preliminary ideas on

the sort of uses to which the money might be put are

set out in Annex C.

(e) Mandatory repatriation: monitoring expenditure

No programme of non voluntary repatriation would be

viable without internationally credible monitoring.

Our objective should be to persuade the UNHCR to

undertake this, or failing that to secure the

cooperation of leading non Governmental

organisations, such as Oxfam or Save the Children.

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