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when questioned spokesman was not aware of precedents for announcing
xkkikgakkakka willingness to recognise in advance, but he told another
questioner it would be wrong to say the statement was deliberately timed
to xxixi coincide with madame minh's visit to the fco. END UNATTRIBUTABL
spokesman said madame thi mình (a member of the PRG delegation in zi
paris), who is in london today attending, a conference organised by the
on an official british peace committee, is calling at the fco at 1600 hours.
rhodesia
on an official
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spokesman was questioned about a report in the financial times
from kingston saying that the british government had agreed to hold a
constitutional conference on rhodesia within the next three months,
even if mr ian smith refused to attend.
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spokesman drew correspondents' attention to statements made by the
foreign and commonwealth secretary in recent months. he has said he is
willing to hold a constitutional conference when he considers the time
right to do so.
spokesman added that the fco had not received direct information from
kingston on the newspaper report but reuter reports from kingston suggeste
that the financial times timetable had been denied by british sources.
as far as spokesman was aware there had been no (rpt no) change in the
british position as previously outlined by mr james callaghan.
vietnam refugees in hongkong
spokesman skkfkizhäxkkak told a questioner he understood there were
about four and a half thousand vietnamese refugees in hongkong. asked
if they were considered an american responsibility, spokesman said
UNATTRIBUTABLY that the hongkong government had been in touch with the americans and canadians on the refugee question. officials in hongkong were trying to find out from any papers they had with them whether the refugeen had connections or a relatives in other countries. the refugees had been
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rescued from a xki sunk vietnamese ship by a danish ship and taken to hongk but spokesman x did not (rpt not) know the position of any individual refugees vis a vis the united states. END UNATTRIBUTABLE
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