CONFIDENTIAL
HKK 243/1
RECEIVED IN AYAM
12 JAN 1979
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Mr Simpson-Orlebar (UND)
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
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You will have seen Hong Kong telegram No 72 feopy attached for ease of reference) about the new German offer to take 100 refugees from Hong Kong without any strings attached. Mr Lincke of the German Embassy telephoned yesterday afternoon to pass on the information in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Hong Kong TUR. After thanking him suitably, I said that we had already received a report from the Hong Kong Government which was on all fours with what he had told
I read Mr Lincke paragraph 3 of Hong Kong TUR giving the Hong Kong Government's reaction. Mr Lincke said he would continue to keep in touch with the FCO on substantive questions, but suggested
I said that detailed problems should be sorted out in Hong Kong. that this was entirely acceptable to us.
me.
11 January 1979
RJT McLaren
Hong Kong and General Department