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Finance
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Any financial help Britain might offer towards the
and running cost of establishing/a centre is something for the ODM to
consider (we are grateful for the considered comments in Vic
McGee's letter of 15 February to Pat Morgan). We should like
to tell the UNHCR that the government would in principle be
prepared to consider sympathetically making financial
contributions commensurate with the normal level of our
contributions and with the need and number of refugees to be
housed in the centre, but that our consideration of this
would need to be based on practical and concrete proposals:
there is no call to make any more specific commitment to
finance the centre, or any part of it, at this stage. If the
ODM (to whom I am copying this letter and enclosures) could
agree to the formula above, or offer a better alternative, we
should be most grateful.
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I should also welcome any other more general comments
you may have on the proposal. I am not sure whether the
Treasury need be brought into the picture at this stage, but
may 1 leave this to you and to the ODM to decide?
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