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BUT PUTTING VOLUNTEERS ON TO ORP FLIGHTS WAS A MUCH MORE REALISTIC OPTION AT THIS STAGE THAN INCLUDING ORP RETURNEES ON UNHCR FLIGHTS. SHE AND ANVAR AGREED TO CONSIDER IT FURTHER.
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LORD CAITHNESS REFERRED TO THE EXASPERATION THE VIETNAMESE AUTHORITIES HAD EXPRESSED TO HIM DURING HIS VISIT AT UNHCR MONEY GOING TO INDIVIDUAL RETURNEES RATHER THAN TO THE COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY WERE RESETTLED. HE SUGGESTED THAT UNHCR SHOULD BE LOOKING AT WAYS OF REDUCING (FOR VOLUNTEERS) AND STOPPING (FOR NON-VOLUNTEERS) PAYMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS AND TRANSFERRING PAYMENTS TO THE COMMUNITIES INSTEAD. IF PROPERLY HANDLED, WITH TAPERING OF THE PAYMENT THE LONGER THE DELAY IN VOLUNTEERING, THIS COULD ACT AS AN INCENTIVE TO ENCOURAGE VOLUNTEERS TO COME FORWARD. BUT SUCH A SCHEME COULD NOT BE INTRODUCED UNTIL ORP II WAS UP AND RUNNING. MRS OGATA EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE IDEA, BUT REMARKED THAT IT WOULD NEED FINE TUNING TO ENSURE THAT IT DID INDEED ACT AS AN INCENTIVE AND NOT AS A DISINCENTIVE. SAID SUBSEQUENTLY THAT THEY AGREED WITH OUR IDEAS. THEY WOULD ACT AS SOON AS WE GAVE UNHCR THE NOD. LORD CAITHNESS CONFIRMED THAT IN ADDITION TO THE DOLLARS 200,000 WE HAD RECENTLY OFFERED, THE DOLLARS 450,000 FROM THE UNDERSPEND AT BATAAN COULD BE USED FOR THE CPA, WITH THE DOLLARS 450,000 SAVED USED ON SMALL PROJECTS IN VIETNAM.
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5. LORD CAITHNESS SAID THAT HE HOPED UNHCR WOULD CONSIDER VERY CAREFULLY THE TIMING OF ANY ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE EXERCISING OF UNHCR'S MANDATE OVER TWO OF THE REMAINING SEVEN JUDICIAL REVIEW CASES (UKMIS GENEVA TELNO 73). THE ANNOUNCEMENT COULD UNDERMINE CONFIDENCE IN THE SCREENING PROCESS AND PROVOKE UNHELPFUL ACTIVITY BY US LAWYERS AND CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS. ANVAR SAID THAT UNHCR HAD PLANNED TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON 7 FEBRUARY. HE HAD PUT A STOP TO THAT. HE HAD ASKED FOR THE PAPERS ON ALL SEVEN CASES TO BE SENT BACK TO GENEVA TO BE RECONSIDERED. HE WOULD KEEP IN TOUCH WITH US ABOUT THE FINAL DECISION AND THE TIMING OF ANY ANNOUNCEMENT. HE ADDED THAT HE THOUGHT THAT MOST OF THE 748 CASES IN WHICH THE UNHCR HAD EXERCISED ITS MANDATE DATED FROM THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF SCREENING IN 1988. THE SCREENING PROCESS HAD GREATLY IMPROVED SINCE THEN AND HE HAD FULL CONFIDENCE IN IT. HE WAS MORE CONCERNED BY THE HIGH RATE OF SCREENING-IN IN EG. THE PHILIPPINES CAGAIN OVER 50 PERCENT). COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE JUSTIFIED.
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LORD CAITHNESS EXPRESSED REGRET AT THE DEATHS AT SHEK KONG AND HANDED OVER A COPY OF THE STATEMENT ANNOUNCING THE SETTING
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