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Mr Murray VIETNAM:
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1. You may like to have the following notes for the meeting with Mr Tesh tomorrow.
Maideen and the repatriation of Hong Kong belongers
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2. You agreed with Mr Tesh that there was no need to proceed further at present with our efforts to get Hong Kong officials instal temporarily in Saigon. This was on the understanding that Maideen should leave in the early Autumn, and that the Chinese refugee problem would be largely over by then. (Your minute of 3 August.) 2. We have since learned (Mr Simons' minute of 5 August) that Hong Kong do not expect any early end to the flow of refugees. You may like to mention this to Mr Tesh; though it would in any case probably be a waste of time to pursue the question of resident Hong Kong officials with the Vietnamese while Maideen is still there. (It might also arouse their suspicions as to Maideen's intentions.) 13. If Maideen leaves before his renewed British passport expires
in December, his nationality problem is soluble. (He can enter (either the UK or Hong Kong, and remain for the five years necessary
to qualify for citizenship.) The problem will arise again if is all too likely Maideen does not leave then. We shall have to play this as it comes, but Mr Tesh might be asked to stress to Maideen that no further renewal of his passport is possible. Aid
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Mr Tesh will be discussing aid and trade for Vietnam with the DOT (and ODM and ECGD) at 15.30 on 9 August. We need to clarify with him the line he should take.
6. FCO policy on aid to Vietnam is set out in Mr Simons' submission of 13 July. Mr Tesh's views on the subject are contained in his letter (284/1) to you of 15 July. He goes further than the line agreed with Lord Goronwy-Roberts by envisaging a programme of technical assistance in the fields of cotton, jute and coal; but he too is opposed to capital aid.
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