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 100 STAT. 4378

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—SEPT. 30, 1986

Agreed to September 29, 1986. '
 * satisfy such child's need for continuity of care after such dis'-'•• solution.

Sept. 30, 1986

[s. Con. Res 143]

UNITED

NATIONS

ORDERLY

DEPARTURE

PROGRAM FOR VIETNAM—RESUMPTION Whereas the United Nations Orderly Departure Program for Vietnam has enabled more than 100,000 persons to leave Vietnam without facing the hazards of departure by sea, which has exposed thousands of Vietnamese to the risks of weather, unseaworthy vessels, and the depredations of pirates; Whereas the international community, the United States Government, and the American people have expressed their support for the agreement reached between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Vietnamese authorities in 1979 to establish the Orderly Departure Program for Vietnam (hereafter in this preamble referred to as the "Departure Program"); Whereas that agreement provides for both "family reunion and humanitarian cases" to depart Vietnam through the Departure Program and for the Government of Vietnam to provide the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the receiving countries with every facility to implement the Departure Program; Whereas the President, in consultation with the Congress, proposed in September 1984, and reaffirmed in September 1985, that the United States was prepared to receive (1) persons of special humanitarian concern from Vietnam, in particular the "reeducation camp" prisoners, thousands of whom remain imprisoned because of their past associations with United States programs and policies in the region or with the former Government of the Republic of Vietnam; and (2) the Amerasian children and their mothers and other close relatives remaining in Vietnam; Whereas the United States and other concerned governments have earnestly sought improvements in the operation of the Departure Program at meetings organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with representatives of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; and Whereas the authorities of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on January 1, 1986, suspended the interviewing and processing of all applicants in Vietnam for resettlement in the United States, thus threatening to interrupt the flow of departures from Vietnam by those found eligible for admission to the United States as refugees or immigrants: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring). That the Congress hereby calls upon the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam— (1) to permit the immediate resumption of interviewing and processing of applicants in Vietnam who have received preliminary approval from the United States Government for resettlement in the United States under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Orderly Departure Program for Vietnam; and

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