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AND ORDERLY: VIETNAM SHOULD CEASE FORCING
ETHNIC CHINESE TO LEAVE:
(C) A STATEMENT HAD BEEN ISSUED ON 29 MAY (FCO TEL NO 120 TO SINGAPORE, NOT COPIED TO ALL) CALLING ON THE TAIWAN AUTHORITIES TO RECONSIDER
THEIR POLICY OVER ACCEPTING REFUGEES FROM THE
'ROACHBANK':
(D) IN REPLY TO A MESSAGE WHICH THE UN SECRETARY- GENERAL HAD SENT TO THE PRIME MINISTER (AND, WE UNDERSTOOD, TO OTHER HEADS OF STATE), IN WHICH HE APPEALED FOR INCREASED FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE UNHCR'S OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA AND FOR INCREASED RESETTLEMENT OFFERS FOR INDO-CHINA REFUGEES, CONSIDERATION WAS BEING GIVEN TO PROPOSING A FURTHER UN CONFERENCE ON THE REFUGEE
PROBLEM AND TO URGING THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
TO APPLY MORAL PRESSURE ON THOSE COUNTRIES WHO HAD
NOT HITHERTO BORN THEIR SHARE OF THE PROBLEM.
CORTAZZI RECOGNISED THAT THESE APPROACHES COULD OPERATE ONLY ON THE FRINGES OF THE PROBLEM, BUT CONSIDERED THE SITUATION SO SERIOUS THAT EVERY POSSIBLE COURSE OF ACTION MUST BE PURSUED.. HE REQUESTED THE ASEAN REPRESENTATIVES TO PROPOSE TO THEIR GOVERNMENTS THAT THEY GIVE URGENT CONSIDERATION TO REINFORCING OUR ACTIONS BY DEMARCHES OF THEIR OWN. NO COMMITMENTS WERE GIVEN, BUT REPRESENTATIVES WERE CLEARLY IMPRESSED BY THE STEPS THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN. YOU SHOULD MAKE EARLY FOLLOW UP REPRESENTATIONS STRESSING ESPECIALLY THE DESIRABILITY OF ASEAN COUNTRIES APPPOACHING VIETNAM AND THE SOVIET UNION ON THE ONE HAND, AND POTENTIAL RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES EC IN LATIN AMERICA ON THE OTHER. WE SHALL SEND YOU THE PEPLY TO MR WALDHEIM
AS SOON AS IT IS ISSUED.
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PLEASE REPORT REACTIONS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
#. FURTHER RECORD OF MEETING WILL FOLLOW BY BAG.
CARRINGTON
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