📅 12 January 1979
The Vietnamese government told UNHCR it would permit legal departures for specified categories. This was followed by negotiations toward a regular channel for family reunification and humanitarian...
📅 30 May 1979
A memorandum established procedures for family-reunification and other humanitarian departures from Vietnam. The programme created a legal pathway for many people while leaving eligibility rules and...
📅 31 May 1979
A UNHCR mission visited Vietnam from May 25 to 31 as the regional refugee crisis deepened. Its work occurred amid contested accounts of why people were leaving and growing international pressure for...
📅 30 December 1979
Vietnam sent the U.N. texts of its May memorandum with UNHCR, a June Foreign Ministry statement, and its speech at the July Geneva meeting. The documentary exchange captured the competing claims of...
📅 7 March 1989
Governments and international agencies met in Kuala Lumpur to prepare a multilateral response to rising arrivals from Indochina. The process sought to preserve first asylum, assess refugee claims,...
📅 6 March 1996
At the final meeting of the CPA steering committee, participating governments confirmed that the regional plan would formally end on 30 June. This decision sought to close a large asylum and...
