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TO FEEL THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF THE PRESENCE OF THE CAMP. THEY THEREFORE WISHED TO GO AHEAD AT TARLAC. THIS WOULD TAKE LONGER TO BUILD AND WAS POLITICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY MORE CONVENIENT.
12. AFTER MR MAUDE HAD EXPLAINED THAT HE HAD PLEDGED POUNDS STERLING 3 MILLION FOR THE RPC TO MR STOLTENBERG IN GENEVA ON 12 FEBRUARY, SUBJECT TO THE FIRST REFUGEES ARRIVING BY 1 JULY AT THE LATEST AND OTHERS PLEDGING CONTRIBUTIONS, MANGLAPUS EXPRESSED DISAPPOINTMENT THAT THE PLEDGE HAD SHRUNK FROM 5 MILLION TO 3 MILLION POUNDS. COULD WE RECONSIDER? MR MAUDE UNDERTOOK TO TALK TO HIS FINANCE COLLEAGUES. HOWEVER, EIGHT MONTHS HAD PASSED SIIRZ THE ICIR AND, GRANTED THE RATE OF RESETTLEMENT, THERE WERE MORE IMMEDIATE CALLS FOR THE MONEY, SUCH AS NEW ACCOMMODATION IN HONG KONG. IN REPLY TO MR MAUDE'S QUESTION, MANGLAPUS INSISTED THAT THE NEW CAMP IN TARLAC COULD BE READY TO RECEIVE THE FIRST REFUGEES 3 MONTHS AFTER THE DECISION TO PROCEED WAS TAKEN.
13. MR MAUDE STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE US CONTRIBUTING TO THE SPEEDING UP OF VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION, GRANTED THEIR HIGH MORAL TONE, IN MAHATHIR'S WORDS, TO MANDATORY REPATRIATION. HE HOPED THAT THE PHILIPPINES WOULD ADD TO THE PRESSURE ON THE US AND JAPAN TO CONTRIBUTE TO VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION, INCLUDING THE PRPC. HE UNDERTOOK TO REPORT THE OUTCOME OF HIS TALKS IN HANOI AND FLOATED THE IDEA OF A REGIONAL APPROACH. WHILE IT WAS UNLIKELY THAT THE AMERICANS WOULD OVERTLY APPROVE OF MANDATORY REPATRIATION, THEY MIGHT BE PREPARED TO STOP BLOCKING THE SC3 CONSENSUS, IF THE COUNTRIES DIRECTLY
CONCERNED SHOWED SUFFICIENT UNITY OF PURPOSE AND DETERMINATION. MANGLAPUS EXPRESSED INTEREST.
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