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by the Review
Boards was shortened to,
say, 7 days.
There is however already criticism from the UNHCR,
repeated by Amnesty
International, that a period of 28
days is insufficient,
Such criticism would have more
substance if the period was reduced.
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An essential
element of this approach is that
after arrival must be returned
If the arrival rate is low it might
those screened out soon
quickly to Vietnam.
be possible to continue
to return people by air.
However, contingency plans have been made to establish a
repatriation programme by sea. The objective would be to
screen all new arrivals quickly at the Green Island
reception centre and return the screened out each week to
Haiphong in groups of about 400 per voyage.
In this way
the deterrent
more immediate.
be considerably
message would be strengthened by making it
The difficulties of repatriation would
reduced because we would be dealing with
people who had not been subjected to the hostile
environment OF the camps. However, we would not wish to
already in the camps to become even more
nor give the
allow those
entrenched,
impression that those already
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