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Article: Fresh hope in South-East Asia. (UN High Commissioner for Refugees' Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indo-Chinese refugees)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- September 1, 1991
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The date 14. June 1989 marked a major turning point in the history of South-East Asia, as well as international refugee policy. It was then that the Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) tor Indo-Chinese refugees was adopted, establishing a legal framework to address the problem of refugees and asylum seekers from Viet Nam and Laos.
Earlier, on 18 December 1988, Viet Nam and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed an agreement in Geneva ensuring that the "boat people" of Viet Nam would not be prosecuted if they returned to their own country. That was the first step in what has since become a model voluntary repatriation effort in the entire region.
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