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PS/LA. GORONA ROBERTS
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toms Sir A.Duff.
Ps/.ha...12, Downing St.
TELEGRAM NUMBER 30 OF 13 FEBRUARY
INFO IMMEDIATE PARIS (FOR D F MURRAY)
th. Quf hei (Mr Mclaren hersen? Jrickian
14.2.
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HKK 2431
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PRIORITY PEKING, WASHINGTON, MOSCOW, KUALA LUMPUR, SINGAPORE, JAKARTA, MANILA, BANGKOK, CANBERRA, WELLINGTON, VIENTIANE,
·GOV HONG KONG
CALL BY VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR
1. CORTAZZI SUMMONED ON 13 FEBRUARY THE VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR WHO HAD HIMSELF ASKED TO CALL ON LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS. CORTAZZI SAID THAT ON HIS RECENT VISIT TO ASEAN COUNTRIES HE HAD FOUND GREAT CONCERN ABOUT VIETNAM'S BEHAVIOUR IN CAMBODIA AND SUSPICIONS ABOUT VIETNAMESE INTENTIONS. HE REMINDED HOAN THAT WHEN THE SECRETARY OF STATE SPOKE TO HIM ON 23. JANUARY HE HAD DEMANDED THE WITHDRAWAL OF VIETNAMESE FORCES FROM CAMBODIA AND HAD STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE WHICH WE ATTACHED TO THE INTEGRITY OF THAILAND AND OF ALL SOUTH EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES.
2. REFERRING TO THE TENSION ON THE SINO-VIETNAMESE BORDER, CORTAZZ! URGED STRONGLY THAT THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT SHOULD EXERCISE THE FULLEST POSSIBLE RESTRAINT IN THIS AREA, AND EMPHASISED THE IMPORT- ANCE WHICH WE ATTACHED TO THIS.
3. CORTAZZI THEN REFERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR ON 23 JAN. WE DEEPLY DEPLORED THE VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT WHICH HAD LED TO THE EXODUS OF SO MANY SMALL BOAT REFUGEES FROM VIETNAM. SOME PEOPLE WERE LEAVING UNDER A PLAN IN WHICH VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS WERE CLEARLY INVOLVED. BOATS WERE CHARTERED AND COLLECTED PASSENGERS FROM VIETNAMESE PORTS AGAINST PAYMENT IN GOLD. THIS HAD CLEARLY BEEN THE CASE WITH THE HUEY FONG AND WE HAD UNCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE OF THE WAY THE OPERATION WAS CONDUCTED. THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN PUT TO GREAT TROUBLE AND EXPENSE. FOR HUMANITARIAN REASONS THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT HAD ALLOWED THE REFUGEES FROM THIS SHIP TO LAND BUT HONG KONG WAS OVERCROWDED AND THIS TRAFFIC IN HUMAN CARGO MUST STOP. THE MASTER OF THE SHIP AND OTHERS HAD NOW BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED.
4. THE AMBASSADOR HAD TOLD THE SECRETARY OF STATE THAT THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT PARTY TO THESE ARRANGEMENTS. BUT THE EVIDENCE WAS TO THE CONTRARY. ANOTHER SHIP THE SKYLUCK HAD NOW ARRIVED IN HONG KONG. THERE WAS CLEARLY A CONSPIRACY,
5. THE AMBASSADOR SHOULD BE WARNED THAT THE FACTS OF THE CONSPIRACY WOULD BECOME PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AS THE PROSECUTION OF THE MASTER OF THE HUEY FONG PROCEEDED IN HONG KONG. THIS WOULD CAUSE EVEN GREATER HARM TO VIETNAM'S NAME.
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