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From the Private Secretary
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28 June 1979
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Vietnamese Refugees: MV Ashford
tri overtaken
Thank you for your letter of 26 June about the 41
Vietnamese refugees who have been picked up in the South
China Sea by the UK registered salvage vessel MV Ashford.
5/0
pin.
The Prime Minister has seen your letter. She does not
consider that the guarantee for which the Singapore
authorities are likely to ask should be given for the time
being. The Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary may wish to
discuss this matter with the Prime Minister further while they
are in Tokyo.
I am sending copies of this letter, for the record, to John Chilcot (Home Office), Tom Harris (Department of Trade), Bill Beckett (Law Officers' Department) and Martin Vile (Cabinet Office).
Yours ever,
будитвания
G.G.H. Walden, Esq.,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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