IMMEDIATE
GRS 250
CYPHER CAT -A-
FROM TOK YO,
2328277 JUL
2 6 JUL1976
CONFIDENTIAL
SICK 2113/JURL
CONFIDENTIAL.
TO IMMEDIATE FCO, TELNO 650, DATED 23 JULY 1976., REPEATED
AS IMMEDIATE INFO TO UKMIS GENEVA, FRIORITY INFO TO HONG KONG, WASHINGTON, AND RANGOON, ROUTINE INFO TO PEKING KUALA LUMPUR,
AND VIENTIANE,
SAVING TO HANOI,
UKMIS GENEVA TELNO 217.
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES.
1.
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REF.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FIRST SOUTH EAST ASIA DIVISION OF MFA
TOLD MEMBER OF CHANCERY THAT THE BASIC JAPANESE POSITION WAS
AGAIN EXPLAINED TO THE BURMESE YESTERDAY, THIS TIME TO THEIR AMBASSADOR BY NAKAE, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE ASIAN AFFAIRS BUREAU.
2. TSUKADA STATED THAT PROFESSOR SAITO, THE LOCAL PART-TIME UNHCR REPRESENTAGSVE, HAD NOT CALLED ON THE MFA WITH ANY NEW PROPOSALS OR ASSURANCES, HOWEVER TSUKADA SAID THAT IF UNHCR DID
PROVIDE THE KIND OF ASSURANCES THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN IN THE CASE OF THE ''ARTEMISSION 11'' REFUGEES, AND IF SAITO COULD FIND SUITABLE TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION ALTHOUGH THIS WAS LIKELY TO PROVE A DIFFICULT TASK, THE JAPANESE WOULD PERMIT THE REFUGEES TO LAND TEMPORARILY.
3. TSUKADA WAS NOT AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE AMERICANS
TAKING ANY OF THE REFUGEES. HE EXPECTS THE ''AVA'' TO ARRIVE
IN YOKOHAMA ON OR ABOUT 29 JULY.
4.
THE US EMBASSY HERE ARE AWARE OF THE SITUATION, BUT SAY THAT
IT WILL BE SOME TIME BEFORE THEY CAN GIVE ANY INDICATION OF HOW
MANY THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO ACCEPT. THEY STATED THAT ON THEIR PAST
EXPERIENCE OF INTERVIEWING POSSIBLE CANDIDATES, THE NUMBER WHO QUALIFIED FOR ADMISSION WAS LIKELY TO BE A GOOD DEAL LESS THAN
39.
CONFIDENTIAL
/ VIENTIANE