R Flower Esq SEAD FCO
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Date
3 August 1979
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RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES FROM HONG KONG
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Thank you for FCO telegrams numbers 177 and 178. I now attach for you only a copy of the note based completely on the second TUR which I delivered today to Hordijk, the Head of the Asia Sectionof UNHCR. Miss Willday of the Resettlement Section was also present. Hordijk undertook to draw the note to the attention of all concerned, including Hartling, who, though on leave, apparently demands and receives a weekly bundle of papers.
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2. I deployed orally the arguments you had wisely recommended omitting from the draft text in our tel no 389 and also the telling statistics in Hong Kong tel no 26 to UKMIS Geneva. I hope that all this lobbying will begin to have some effect.
3. We have doubts about the proposal in para 3 of FCO tel no 177 that we should send copies of the note just as it is to the Missions of resettlement countries in Geneva. It is not the practice here to send such drop copies of notes addressed to third parties and I think UNHCR would be unhappy about the sentence in the middle beginning "The British Government are further concerned" having such a wide distribution. Unless, therefore, you see major objection by close of play, Monday 6 August, we will send separate copies addressed to each of the Missions concerned omitting that sentence since the point can really be made by a minor adaptation of the last three lines of the text in your TUR.
Yours ever
Keith Machines.
K G MacInnes
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cc: E Quantrill Esq, HKGD, FCO
P Morgan Esq, UND, FCO
I C Orr Esq, Government Secretariat, HONG KONG Chancery, British Embassy, STOCKHOLM Chancery, British Embassy, THE HAGUE
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