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PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence]
DRAFT
LETTER
To:-
The Rt Hon Lord Shawcross GBE QC 33 Lombard Street LONDON LCZ1 ZBH
DSR 11
Type 1 +
From
Irime Minister
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
Thank you for your letter of 16 July, thich you copied to
Feter Carrington.
I am glad to say the Geneva meeting was a success. It
resulted in a massive increase in offers of resettlement
places, from 125,000 to 260,000, and in now pledges of
additional financial support for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees' activities amounting to US190
million. As I expect you know, we had announced ahead of
the meeting that we had agreed to accept a further 10,000
refugees, who would come from Hong Kong, for resettlement
here, and proposed to make a further £5 million available
over the next 12 months for dealing with the refugee problem.
The Geneva meeting 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
as a member of the community of nations.
/I hope
Dd 0532000 800M 5/78 HMSO Bracknell