Socialist Republic of Vietnam

The US has not offered stateside resettlement to 94 ethnic minority Vietnamese migrants, who returned to the Central Highlands from Cambodia in July 2005, according to the US Embassy in Hanoi.

In a press release, the US Embassy noted that the minority Vietnamese migrants were peacefully resettled in accordance with the terms of an agreement between UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Royal Cambodian government and the government of Vietnam.

While in Cambodia, these migrants had been interviewed by the UNHCR and had been found not to be refugees, the press release said.

The US Embassy said it was encouraged by Vietnam's decision to “permit two short-notice visits to the Central Highlands by the UNHCR's Bangkok and Hanoi-based staff members, accompanied by Vietnamese officials, and permit access to the returned migrants."

"The statement is a clarification of a statement made by a US embassy spokesperson on July 27, 2005 to the press on the subject of the resettlement of Montagnards," said the US Embassy.

(Source: VNA)
Story from Thanh Nien News
Published: 16 August, 2005, 20:47:28 (GMT+7)
Copyright Thanh Nien News