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Viewing cable 08HANOI100, UNHCR SAYS MONTAGNARD CAMPS MAXED; STATELESS KHMER PLAN

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08HANOI100 2008-01-30 00:23 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Hanoi
VZCZCXRO4446
RR RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHHM RUEHNH
DE RUEHHI #0100/01 0300023
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 300023Z JAN 08
FM AMEMBASSY HANOI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7062
INFO RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH 4194
RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHGV/USMISSION GENEVA 1229
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HANOI 000100 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS AND PRM, BANGKOK FOR REFUGEE COORDINATOR, GENEVA 
FOR RMA 
PHNOM PENH FOR JANET DEUTSCH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KIRF CB VM
 
SUBJECT: UNHCR SAYS MONTAGNARD CAMPS MAXED; STATELESS KHMER PLAN 
PROGRESSING 
 
REFS: A) 07 HCMC 1137; B) 07 HANOI 1651 
 
HANOI 00000100  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
SUMMARY 
------- 
 
1. (SBU) In a January 23 farewell call with Ambassador Michalak, 
retiring UNHCR Regional Representative Hasim Utkan reviewed the 
progress UNHCR had made in Vietnam over the last several years. 
Working cooperatively with the GVN, the USG and the international 
donor community, Utkan said UNHCR had helped "open up" the Central 
Highlands region and secure, through negotiation, a more permissive 
environment for development and monitoring from the GVN and local 
authorities.  By contrast, Utkan lamented the current conditions at 
Montagnard refugee camps in Cambodia, where he said arrivals from 
Vietnam -- employing dangerous human smugglers -- had been 
increasing and camps were at maximum capacity.  He expressed concern 
about the role of U.S.-based Montagnard advocacy groups in promoting 
emigration and called for better communication and education on the 
USG Visas-93 program and application procedures in Vietnam.  On a 
positive note, Utkan said the GVM Prime Minister had signed off on 
the UNHCR and GVN Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) plan to resolve 
the cases of several thousand stateless persons originally from 
Cambodia in Southern Vietnam.  A full census and process for 
naturalization to Vietnamese citizenship is the crux of the plan 
which will begin implementation this year, according to Utkan.  End 
summary. 
 
UNHCR:  NOT WILLING TO OPEN MORE CAMPS 
-------------------------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) At a January 23 farewell call with Ambassador Michalak, 
UNHCR Regional Representative Hasim Utkan (due to retire at the end 
of January) told the Ambassador the situation in the three UNHCR-run 
Montagnard refugee facilities in Cambodia was very difficult, with 
the facilities close to their maximum holding rate.  He said there 
were now over 500 individuals living at the sites which together 
have a maximum capacity of 550, and UNHCR was not willing to open 
more facilities.  Utkan said 2007 had seen an increase in Vietnamese 
Montagnard arrivals to Cambodia and that 80 percent were now coming 
directly to Phnom Penh, most using human smugglers.  Utkan said many 
of the cases had already been reviewed and rejected for refugee 
status, while both deportation and refugee resettlement processes 
were slow and tedious.  In some cases, individuals remain at the 
sites for processing for over one and a half years, and tempers can 
flare. 
 
CONCERN ABOUT US-BASED ADVOCACY GROUPS 
-------------------------------------- 
 
3. (SBU) Utkan expressed concern about the role of Montagnard 
advocacy groups in the United States in "encouraging the exodus" to 
Phnom Penh to facilitate emigration overseas.  He said many of those 
individuals arriving in Phnom Penh from Vietnam were eligible for 
the USG Visas-93 program, yet they opted to be smuggled into 
Cambodia rather than apply for Visas-93 at our ConGen in Ho Chi Minh 
City.  He said the USG, GVN, and UNHCR needed to cooperate more on 
this issue, stating that local Vietnamese officials needed to be 
educated and trained on Vietnam's responsibilities under the 
Tri-Partite MOU, Visas-93 and other USG immigration programs.  UNHCR 
needed to continue to share lists with State's PRM Bureau to help 
identify and advise sponsoring relatives in the United States, Utkan 
said, while family members in the United States needed to be advised 
on how to apply for Visas-93 and that the use of human smugglers for 
their Vietnam-based relatives was very dangerous. 
 
4. (SBU) National and local GVN officials need to cooperate on 
issuing identity papers to potential refugee applicants and 
facilitating Visas-93 applications.  Identity papers continue to be 
an issue, Utkan remarked.  Utkan also noted that UNHCR, for its 
part, needed increased staff to accelerate its refugee status 
determination (RSD) process as well as to process more regular and 
smaller deportations, which would attract less attention. 
 
CENTRAL HIGHLANDS "STABLE" 
-------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) Utkan sees Vietnam's Central Highlands region as much more 
stable than in 2004 (when there were mass protests) and remarked 
that the region was "in better condition than the Mekong Delta."  He 
told the Ambassador that UNHCR now had a good working relationship 
with the GVN and there was a "climate of confidence" and 
cooperation.  The region is much more open, has a "moving economy" 
and provincial authorities are more receptive to foreign 
delegations, according to Utkan.  UNHCR has conducted 18 monitoring 
 
HANOI 00000100  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
missions since 2005 and conducted several micro-projects, including 
a number funded by the USG.  He said while monitoring visits and 
"private interviews" with ethnic minority returnees was not a 
perfect science, the situation "had settled" and the system was 
working. 
 
6. (SBU) He told the Ambassador the GVN now understood that they had 
to develop the Central Highlands region and had since developed 
better policies to "integrate" rather than "marginalize" the region. 
 He cited land distribution efforts and the establishment of 
vocational training centers for ethnic minorities.  He hoped the 
international donor community would support ongoing GVN efforts. 
 
STATELESS KHMER PLAN "READY FOR IMPLEMENTATION" 
--------------------------------------------- -- 
 
7. (SBU) Utkan said the GVN Prime Minister's office had recently 
signed off on a plan (Reftels), developed by UNHCR and the GVN MFA, 
to survey and naturalize to Vietnamese citizenship a population of 
stateless persons originally from Cambodia in Southern Vietnam.  The 
GVN agreed to waive a naturalization fee for these largely 
impoverished individuals, which had been a stumbling block.  Utkan 
was due to see the EU Ambassador in Hanoi to follow up on a pledge 
by the EU to fund the census component of the plan.  However, Utkan 
said the Plan was "all agreed on" and just needed a final agreement 
on the logistics.  Nevertheless, Utkan asked the Ambassador that he 
keep it on the Mission's agenda with the GVN.  Utkan acknowledged 
that there was an "expectation of results" now. 
 
8. (SBU) Utkan said 3,000 stateless individuals were in former UNHCR 
camps, while thousands of others had moved into HCMC.  Without legal 
status in Vietnam, they have been denied access to health, education 
and other public services for decades.  He said while the GVN 
Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Ministry of Public Security (MPS) had 
provided road blocks to approval of the plan, it was finally, the Ho 
Chi Minh City (HCMC) People's Committee that had helped push through 
a deal with the government.  Utkan used this as an example to the 
Ambassador, as with dealing with the Central Highlands, the need to 
get "buy-in" from provincial-level authorities. 
 
9. (U) This cable was coordinated with Consulate General Ho Chi Minh 
City. 
 
MICHALAK