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Cambodia to interview Montagnards for refugee status

Xinhua, January 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

Cambodias Ministry of Interior is set to interview 171 Montagnards, who have sought refugee status in the country, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng said Wednesday.

Speaking during a meeting with James Lynch, regional coordinator for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to South-East Asia, Sar Kheng said the government granted refugee status to 13 Montagnards in March last year andwill interview the remaining 171 others for refugee status,according to a report posted on the National Polices website.

Those Montagnards fled Vietnam into Cambodia early last year.

James Lynch said the 13 Montagnards, who have already received the refugee status, would be sent to a temporary camp in the Philippines before dispatching them to the third country.

Montagnards are mostly Christian ethnic minority groups that live in Vietnam's mountainous Central Highlands region. Endit