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UN has no plans for repatriation




February 9, 1999  

UN has no plans for repatriation


Regarding your article headlined "Refugees in Tak to be repatriated" (Feb
6), we would like to point out that the article misrepresents the purpose
of the ongoing interviews of asylum seekers in Tak province.

The point of these interviews is to validate, jointly with the Thai
government, claims to asylum of persons newly arrived from Burma. There is
no plan or programme for repatriatioon of camp residents at this time until
there are substantial improvements in the conditions from which these
people fled.

Amelia Bonifacio Regional Representative for Thailand and Cambodia UNHCR 




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