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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
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PRIVACY MARKING
Cc:
PS
In Confidence
PS/Mr Hurd
PS/PUS
Sir A Parsons
Mr Leahy
UND
SEAD
HK&GD
EESD
*
CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT SUBMISSION
To:-
Mr Cortazzi PS/Mr Blaker
with HKK243/10
DSR
Type 1 +
From
? Mr Murray
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
INDO-CHINA REFUGEES: RECOURSE TO THE UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY COUNCIL
PROBLEM
1.
Should we take the Indo-China refugee problem
to the UN Security Council?
RECOMMENDATION
2. Not at this stage. We should reconsider doing so
later (subject to consultations with the French and
Americans) if the special conference for which the
Prime Minister has called does not materialise.
ARGUMENT
3. Resort to the Security Council is not an end
in itself. It needs to be considered as a means of
achieving our aims which are:
(a) to reduce the flow of refugees from
Vietnam, by bringing international pressure
/mainly
to bear on the authorities there to lift oppression
and stop the deliberate export of their (ethnic
Chinese) nationals;
/(b)
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