FM Spokeswoman pn repatriation of VN ethnic people from CPC

Ha Noi, Feb. 16 (VNA) -- Vietnamese Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) should bear responsibility for the delay (of the first repatriation batch of Vietnamese ethnic minority people in the central highlands who had illegally fled to Cambodia last year).

The following are answers by MOFA's Spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh to journalists on Feb. 16, 2002

1. UNHCR should make expeditious arrangements for illegal border crossers from the Central Highlands to return to their homes

Reuters: Please comment on the UNHCR decision to delay the repatriation of refugees to the Central Highlands following complaints from the United States that the plan was