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THE PRIME MINISTER
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30 July 1979
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PA
Thank you for your letter of 16 July, which you
copied to Peter Carrington.
I am glad to say the Geneva meeting was a success. It demonstrated the strength of international concern about all aspects of the refugee problem, including the
plight of Cambodia, and secured undertakings from Vietnam to suspend for a time the export of boat people, and to discuss measures for the safe and orderly departure
of those of its citizens who wish to leave.
The world now looks to Vietnam to fulfil its
responsibilities.
The meeting also resulted in an increase in offers of resettlement places, from 125,000 to 260,000 and in new pledges of additional financial support for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' activities amounting to $US190 million.
Sgd: Margaret Thatcher
The Rt. Hon. Lord Shawcross, G.B.E., Q.C.