LORD CAITHNESS' LUNCH WITH THE HONG KONG ASSOCIATION:
TUESDAY 10 MARCH
BRIEF NO 21: VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS
Points to Make
Pleased with progress on ORP; achieving desired deterrent effect.
Our message that we have the will and the means to return
non-refugees is getting through; many are volunteering to return - hope most will now do so.
Of course some will not volunteer; we intend to keep up regular
mandatory flights.
- Discussion on modalities of ORP II continue (return of those
non-refugees who arrived before 29 October 1991). The Vietnamese
are committed to the return of all non-refugees but face genuine financial problems with reintegrating so many so quickly.
Examining problem with EC and UNHCR who both have reintegration programmes in Vietnam.
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Recently been to Vietnam and seen the problems they face. Massive
but not insuperable.
citizens.
They remain committed to taking back their own
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