I apologize to the distinguished chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations for not bringing this particular item up in advance. but I want to make a statement on a matter of great interest. I am concerned with what is going on along the ThaiCambodian border. While this problem comes under the immigration function of the Committee on the Judiciary. I think it can also be mentioned here and now because we have foreign relations matters on the floor. A while ago. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance made a commitment to the Thai Government. as I understand it. that difficulties with refugees along the ThaiCambodian border would be addressed jointly by Thailand and the United States. To date. we have done that. We have had resettlement of these unfortunate people. I believe we have resettled a total of between 300.000 and 400.000 refugees from Southeast Asia in this country. We have lived up to that commitment with the Thais and have worked to resettle these people and tried to get families that were split up reunified. We have done very well on this issue.
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