STATEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING ON PRINCIPLES RELATING TO THE RETURN OF VIETNAMESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM HONG KONG
The Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and of the United Kingdom and Hong Kong have reached the following understandings:
1.
Vietnamese asylumn seekers arriving in Hong Kong after 29 October 1991. who are found to be illegal immigrants after determination of their status in line with the principles outlined in the Comprehensive Plan of Action of June 1989, will be returned to Vietnam in accordance with international practice.
2. Those Vietnamese found to be illegal immigrants who left Vietnam again clandestinely and returned to Hong Kong (the so called double-backers) will be returned to Vietnam in accordance with international practices.
3. There will, in principle, be an orderly repatriation of all Vietnamese asylum seekers present in the centres in Hong Kong before the date agreed in paragraph 1, who are determined not be be refugees in accordance with the CPA provisions and who do not avail themselves of other return programmes. The detailed implementation of this Orderly Repatriation Programme will be discussed between the Governments of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, the Governments concerned will do all they can to increase the rate of repatriation under the existing agreements.
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The Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam recalled the statement on non-persecution of returnees made at SC4. It undertakes that returnees covered by paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 above will enjoy on their return to Vietnam the same guarantees as foreseen in paragraphs 3A and 3B of the Memorandum of Understanding of 13 December 1988 between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and UNHCR. UNHCR will continue to have access for monitoring purposes to all those returned to Vietnam.
For the Government of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam
Willia
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Nguyen Dinh Bin, Director Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
29 October 1991
For the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and for Hong Kong
Polli
Peter Keegan Williams Her Britannic Majesty's
Ambassador
29 October 1991
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