Mr Male

PS/Lord Goronwy-Roberts

cc: KIOD

RECEIVED REGISTRY No 52 -9 SEP 1974

AKKIY/S

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTH VIETNAM

Mr Martin Ennals has written again to

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Lord Goronwy-Roberts but without providing the evidence on which Amnesty International's allegations are based, for which Lord Goronwy-Roberts asked in his letter of 14 August.

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However reluctant Amnesty may be to reveal the sources of their evidence, it would seer unreasonable of them to withhold the evidence itself. I submit a draft reply based on Iord Goronwy-Roberts' suggested wording.

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We are taking up with the Ambassador the possibility of a visit by an impartil observer to see those of the group who are awaiting trial, a possibility which has been mentioned by the South Vietnamese Foreign Minister, but meanwhile I think it would be inadvisable to mention this to Amnesty.

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The Ambassador's record of his conversation with Hr Sanguinetti contains no reference to corruption in high pl ces related to illegal emigration from South Vietnam, as Mr Ennals alleges.

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HKIOD concur.

6 September 1974

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NF Chapman

South East Asian Dert.

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