UNHCR makes fact-finding tour in Dak Lak
A representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that ethnic minority people in Central Highlands who illegally crossed the border to Cambodia were easily to be deceived due to their low educational level, according to the Army Newspaper.
UNHCR spokesman Kitty McKinsey, who is leading a delegation on a fact-finding visit to Central Highlands province of Dak Lak from June 26-28, made the remark during a meeting with provincial People’s Committee Chairman Lu Ngoc Cu on June 27.
McKinsey was quoted as saying that almost all of the returnees were not refugees, and therefore, they were unfit to settle in a third country.
The delegation arrived in districts of Buon Don and Cu M’gar, visited boarding and vocational training schools for ethnic minority children and met directly with families of those ethnic minority people who had illegally left for Cambodia in 2006.
The UN representative said that she would reflect objectively and honestly what she had seen during the visit, thus helping the international community understand more about the Vietnamese Government’s policies on the ethnic minority people in Central Highlands, the paper said.
McKinsey said she was also impressed with the development of Vietnam since her first visit to the country in 1991.
Source: VNA
UNHCR spokesman Kitty McKinsey, who is leading a delegation on a fact-finding visit to Central Highlands province of Dak Lak from June 26-28, made the remark during a meeting with provincial People’s Committee Chairman Lu Ngoc Cu on June 27.
McKinsey was quoted as saying that almost all of the returnees were not refugees, and therefore, they were unfit to settle in a third country.
The delegation arrived in districts of Buon Don and Cu M’gar, visited boarding and vocational training schools for ethnic minority children and met directly with families of those ethnic minority people who had illegally left for Cambodia in 2006.
The UN representative said that she would reflect objectively and honestly what she had seen during the visit, thus helping the international community understand more about the Vietnamese Government’s policies on the ethnic minority people in Central Highlands, the paper said.
McKinsey said she was also impressed with the development of Vietnam since her first visit to the country in 1991.
Source: VNA
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