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intensive" UNHCR monitoring is to be carried out in Hanoi from now on. The task is to make the guarantees credible and then comprehensible to boat people.
Finally, I would ask readers to note that the ideas considered above should not be taken as an exhaustive list of matters of concern. I should like to think further and deeper on the relevant issues once I have returned home. To that extent my views are preliminary, rather than concluded. And one other very important thing needs to be stressed. This is not intended to be a public document at present. Some of the concerns are based on yet unchecked assertions and gut reaction. One of the jobs I would like the Working Group to undertake is to seek out the views of other people in Hong Kong to see if the concerns ring true with them in their areas of life. Marshalling the facts is essential to planning the best way of bolstering autonomy.
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So far away from Exmoor, I have been able to write this paper in Hong Kong only because of the generosity of the partners of Johnson Stokes & Master in giving me the use of a room and all the facilities I could wish for. I would like to record my thanks to them, and to Simon Ip esq., in particular. For Stella Lam, who typed and typed and typed so many scrawled drafts, no amount of thanks could ever do justice to the effort and care she has put into producing this paper.
Brian Wrobel
19th Floor, Prince's Building
10 Chater Road
Central
Hong Kong
Friday, 14th December, 1990
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