DRAFT LETTER
CONFIDE
NTIAL
Y CLASSIFICATION
To:-
Top Secret,
Secret
Confidential.
BG Cartledge Esq
No 10 Downing Street
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
...In Confidence
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
Type 1 +
From
Private Secretaru
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
Enc.
ATTACH COPY
1.
Your letter of 2 July conveyed the Prime Minister's
instructions that consultations with Australia, the
United States, Canada and perhaps France, with a view to
arriving at common approach to the conference in
Geneva on 20/21 July, should be put in hand as a matter
of urgency.
2.
Missions in London were consulted on 3 July and we
have convened an officials' meeting for 11 July.
This
will give time for governments to send full instructions
to London.
3. After the FCO had taken action, we received
Canberra telegram No 371, which expands considerably on
what Mrs Thatcher discussed with Mr Fraser and
Mr MacKellar in Canberra. Lord Carrington/views,
together with a report on action taken in accordance with
the Prime Minister's instructions, are recorded in the
attached telegram which was despatched to Canberra today.
4.
am sending copies of this letter and enclosure to
Tony Butler (Home Office), Tom Harris (Department of
Trade) and Martin Vile (Cabinet Office).
CONFIDENTIAL
DA 108087 2001 SEK 1/77