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INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG, UKM IS GENEVA AND NAPOR
TELEGRAM NUMBER 1314 OF 2 JUNE 1979.
TELECON SOUTAR/RESIDENT CLERK
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES : TAIWAN
1. STATE DEPARTMENT HAVE TOLD US THAT THE U.S. OFFICE IN TAIPEI MAD RAISED THE ROACHBANK REFUGEES WITH THE TAIWANESE REMINDING THEN OF OF EARLIER UNDERTAKINGS WHICH THEY HAD GIVE THAT THEY WOULD ACCEPT REFUGEES FROM SHIPS WHOSE FIRST PORT OF CALL WAS IN TAIWAN, THE TAIWANESE REACTION HAD BEEN TO INQUIRE HOW MANY OF THE ROACHBANK REFUGEES WERE CHINESE. THE U.S. OFFICE HAD REPLIED THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE THIS INFORMATION, AND HAD SUGGESTED THAT THE TAIWANESE ESTABLISH THIS THEMSELVES. THIS THE TAIWANESE HAD UNDERTAKEN TO DO.
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