¡¡¡¡HANOI, March 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Vietnam holds that the problem of Vietnam's Tay Nguyen ethnic minority people illegally crossed the border to Cambodia should be quickly solved in the spirit of humanism, a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said here on Sunday.

¡¡¡¡The spokesperson stressed in a statement that the problem must not be politicized and not to harm the security of Vietnam and Cambodia.

¡¡¡¡Vietnam has consulted with Cambodia and reached an agreement that the problem of Vietnam's illegal migrants, who now live from hand to mouth in Rattanakiri and Mondunkiri, should be solved quickly and thoroughly.

¡¡¡¡He added that those who want to return home should be repatriated with the help of Vietnam, Cambodia and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR); those who want to be settled down to a third country should be handled properly.

¡¡¡¡More than 1,000 ethnic minority people in Vietnam's Tay Nguyen province illegally crossed the border to Cambodia due to cheat andincitement by malefactors last year. Enditem

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