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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 44 -
CREATING AN INTER-AGENCY COMMITTEE TO RESOLVE ISSUES AND CONCERNS
INVOLVING ALL REMAINING VIETNAMESE NATIONALS IN THE PHILIPPINES
WHEREAS, the Vietnamese boat people who
arrived in the Philippines after March 21, 1989 were found to be
economic migrants, not genuine asylum-seekers and should, therefore,
return to their country of origin, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Government has agreed to accommodate the
request of the United States of America to use the Philippines as a
transit point for the resettlement in the United States of America to
use the Philippines as a transit point for the resettlement in the
United States of Vietnamese nationals under the Orderly Departure
Program (ODP);
WHEREAS, a number of these Vietnamese nationals under the ODP were
found to be ineligible for admission into the United States under US
laws and are now "stranded" in the Philippines owing to the Government
of Vietnam's refusal to receive them back;
WHEREAS, the boat people and those under the ODP constitute all the
Remaining Vietnamese Nationals (RVNs) in the Philippines;
WHEREAS, these boat people have not opted for voluntary repatriation
and instead has sought permanent residency status;
WHEREAS, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and
the Catholic Church, represented by the Catholic Bishops Conference of
the Philippines (CBCP), have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding
placing the boat people under the probationary custody of the CBCP
pending the adoption of a durable solution to the problem;
WHEREAS, it is in the interest of the Philippines that the RVNs return
to their homeland or be resettled in other countries;
WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to provide a durable and acceptable
solution to the issues and concerns surrounding the RVNs in the
Philippines;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby
order:
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Done in the City of Manila,
this 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred
and ninety-eight.
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