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1. I attach the first redraft of the Secretary of State's speech to be made on Friday morning 20 July at the Geneva Conference on Indo-China Refugees. You said that the Secretary of State wished to see as soon as possible how this speech was
shaping up.
2. We had always envisaged that the speech might be subject to amendment in the light of the discussions at official level in Geneva tomorrow and on Thursday, and in the light of the prior consultations which Mr Blaker will hold there at Ministerial level. I will keep in touch by telephone from Geneva with
Mr Cortazzi and SEAD.
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However, there is also a serious possibility that the speech will need amendment or additions right at the last moment, because the UN Secretariat has pressed the Irish very hard to let the Vietnamese delegate speak before they do so: and the Irish have agreed to tolerate this queue-jumping. I have little doubt that the Vietnamese intend to make a heavy policy speech and, given that the Irish Presidency speech will be a bland affair, the Secretary of State's speech will need to comment on any Vietnamese proposals. If these are spurious it should be easy to do so, but if they are superficially reasonable and attractive we might have
One line for the to suggest that they should at least be studied. Secretary of State would be to suggest that Vietnamese good faith
has still to be tested.
4. In redrafting the speech I have put the passages about Hong Kong at the end, so that the Secretary of State can give a lead-in to the Governor of Hong Kong. I will arrange with the Secretariat that the Governor should speak for five minutes immediately after the Secretary of State's short speech.
17 July 1979
DF Murray
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