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which

in

address the Indo-Chinese refugee problem,

was approved by the Preparatory Conference

Kuala Lumpur in March 1989.

Among the arrangements foreseen

in the CPA. is

the introduction of procedures for determining

the status of all newly arriving Indo-Chinese

asylum-seekers in South East Asian countries,

Thus, under the provisions of the CPA only those

asylum-seekers recognized a8 refugees will qualify for resettlement.

Nevertheless, there remain between 50,000 and

60,000 Vietnamese refugees for whom resettlement

18 to be guaranteed under the CPA ав their

arrival in camps

before announced cut-off-dates

qualified them for primae facie recognition.

Undertakings by resettlement countries

countries to provide

solutions for this population comprise one of the

essential and interdependent components of the

CPA.

During the session of the Co-ordinating Committee

for the International Conference held on 19

19 and

20 April it was understood that my office would

call upon the maximum number of concerned States

to elaborate plans and seek to quantify

commitments to resettle recognized refugees from the region. To this end, the attached analysis