Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1.'
Mr Jeaffreson
Deputy Financial Secretary
Colonial Secretariat
HONG KONG
Telephone 01.
Your reference
Our reference.
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Date
4 February 1976
UNITED KINGDOM FINANCIAL AID FOR VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
1. Please refer to Mrs Ford's letter DIS 182/201/03 of 30 June 1975, Mrs Johnson's letter HKK 18/25 of 5 August 1975 and your tel no 806 of 20 August 1975.
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2. The Accounts Department of the Ministry of Overseas Development have now asked us to obtain the following statements on the £70,000 paid into the Hong Konr Government's account at the Crown Agents as a contribution to the support of the Vietnamese refugees:-
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(c)
written acknowledgement of the receipt of the money; a short report of the Hong Kong Government's activities in helping, the Vietnamese;
a financial statement certified by independent auditors in which HMG's contribution can be readily identified and from which it will be clear that the £70,000 has been fully applied to the purposes intended.
I would be most grateful if you would arrange for these statements to be forwarded to this department in due course.
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hrs Ford, Disaster Unit,
ODM
Mr Stickels, Finance Dept,
ODM,
R B JANVRIN
Hong Kong and Indian Ocean
Department
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