Mr. Speaker. today. I Introduced a resolution. along with my colleague from Ohio Congressman BOB McEWEN. which expresses the strong support of the American Congress for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Orderly Departure Program. under which 105.000 persons have safely left Vietnam since its Inception in 1979. Specifically. this concurrent resolution calls on the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to: First. immediately resume interviewing and processing applicants in Vietnam who have been given preliminary approval for resettlement in the United States under the orderly departure program. and second. permit the same and orderly departure of reeducation camp prisoners. Amerasian children and other persons of special humanitarian concern to the United States.
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