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FM JAKARTA 150915Z MAY 79
TO IMMEDIATE F C O
TELNO 134 OF 15 MAY
INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
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INFO PRIORITY PARIS (FOR MURRAY) UKMIS GENEVA KUALA LUMPUR
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YOUR TELNOS 63 TO JAKARTA AND 278 TO HONG KONG: JAKARTA CONFERENCE
ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROCESSING CENTRE FOR VIETNAMESE REFUGEES,
1. I SPOKE WITH DARUSMAN BEFORE THE JAKARTA MEETING ON REFUGEES
OPENED, HE IS NOW ACTING AS MOCHTAR'S SPECIAL ADVISER UNTIL HIS
DEPARTURE FOR BERNE. DARUSMAN TOLD ME THAT THE MEETING OF THE
ASEAN STANDING COMMITTEE WHICH HAD JUST ENDED HAD TOUCHED ON THE
INCLUSION OF HONG KONG IN THE SPECIAL PROCESSING CENTRE PROJECT.
ALTHOUGH ASEAN REPRESENTATIVES WERE SYMPATHETIC OVER HONG KONG'S SPECIAL PROBLEMS, THEY WERE RELUCTANT TO INCLUDE HONG KONG IN THE. SCHEME LEST THEY SET UNWELCOME PRECEDENTS (MACAU AND, HOWEVER FAR- FETCHED, CHINA). I REPEATED THAT THIS WOULD BE AWKWARD FOR US AND THAT MY INSTRUCTIONS (YOUR TELNO 63) LEFT ME NO ALTERNATIVE TO MAKING A LESS THAN POSITIVE INTERVENTION DURING THE MEETING. I SAID THIS WOULD BE A PITY SINCE IT WOULD PROBABLY REPRESENT ONE OF THE FIRST PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE ON BEHALF OF OUR NEW GOVERNMENT.. TO A COLLECTIVE MEETING OF ASEAN REPRESENTATIVES. WHILE I
ACKNOWLEDGED THE RATHER REMOTE
POSSIBILITY OF A PRECEDENT WHICH
ASEAN WOULD PREFER TO AVOID, BOTH HMG AND THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT WERE WILLING IN PRINCIPLE TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROCESSING CENTRE SO LONG AS HONG KONG WAS NOT EXCLUDED. DARUSMAN AGREED, BUT SAID THIS COULD ONLY BE ARGUED OUT AFTER THE JAKARTA MEETING ENDED. 1 THEREFORE PRESSED DARUSMAN TO ENSURE THAT MOCHTAR AND THE ASEAN REPRESENTATIVES DID NOT SLAM THE DOOR IN MY FACE AT THE MEETING., AND THAT I FOR MY PART WOULD LIMIT MY INTERVENTION TO OFFERING THE CARROT OF FINANCIAL
CONTRIBUTIONS IF HONG KONG WERE INCLUDED IN THE SCHEME.
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