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FRI 12 JUN 92 11:06

CONFIDENTIAL # 3

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Q13

A13

What will happen after this flight? Will there be

more?

Yes. Next flight expected in about one month.

Q14

The last ORF I flight was on 12 February. it taken so long to have this flight?

Why has

A14

We

how the

and the Vietnamese have been looking closely at

latest stage of the orderly return

programme could best be implemented in view of the

large numbers of non-refugees currently stuck in

our camps. The Vietnamese Government also wanted

have time to consider the reintegration

arrangements for those returned.

to

Q15

Will

the ORP II returnees be given the same

guarantees as in the case of ORF I?

A15

Yes.

Same guarantees and UNHCR monitoring for

volunteers and non-volunteers alike. Over 23,000

migrants have returned to Vietnam (over 18,000 from

Hong Kong alone) and there has not been one single substantiated case of persecution.

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