An international fund, perhaps run by the United Nations, might induce Southeast Asian countries to admit more refugees from their own region for permanent resettlement.

But it deals only with individuals needing permanent resettlement; it ignores groups that want temporary protection because of threatening conditions at home.

She also would oversee the admissions of refugees for permanent resettlement in the United States.

Relief officials are urging refugees to return home, even though they admit that conditions in many areas still make permanent resettlement nearly impossible.

In 1988, more than 14,000 arrived in Hong Kong but there were few offers of permanent resettlement for them elsewhere.

Such visits were still very difficult, however, and permanent resettlement in the homeland, now Poland, remained impossible.

No permanent resettlement may be possible until the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Wealthy countries need to absorb more people for permanent resettlement.

They fled to nearby ountries to seek temporary asylum and most requested permanent resettlement in third countries.

About 25,000 arrived before the dates on which their unwilling host countries instituted screening and are assured of permanent resettlement before the end of this year.