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FM HONG KONG 12043øZ JUNE 8Ø
TO PRIORITY FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 756 OF 12 JUNE
E+R to me
ji
12.6
Mr. Killymon
Para 4 is the
Раги
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не дашит ждый
answer
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on tel 447 as expected.
INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON
INFO SAVING UKMIS GENEVA LISBON WASHINGTON
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MY TELNO 750 PARAGRAPH 4 (NOT TO ALL)
FROM CHINA VIA MACAU.
19. discurs is/ SEAD
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see (43)
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
Waktun
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THE POLITICAL ADVISER RAISED WITH THE PORTUGESE CONSUL-GENRAL YESTERDAY THE LARGE NUMBERS OF REFUGEES BEING DIRECTED FROM MACAU TO HONG KONG: SO FAR THIS YEAR 21 BOATS CARRYING 1,701 REFUGEES. 7 BOATS HAD SIMPLY BEEN DIRECTED TOWARDS
HONG KONG: THE REMAINING 14 WERE TOWED OUT OF MACAU WATERS. ON ARRIVAL IN HONG KONG 13 OF THE BOATS, CARRYING 1,437 REFUGEES, WERE FOUND TO HAVE GONE TO MACAU FROM NEARBY PLACES IN CHINA
WHERE THEY HAD BEEN RESETTLED.
2. IN EXPRESSING OUR CONCERN, THE POLITICAL ADVISER EMPHASISED THE DANGERS POSED BOTH TO MACAU AND TO HONG KONG BY THE FAILURE OF THE MACAU AUTHORITIES TO IDENTIFY REFUGEES COMING FROM CHINA. HE SUGGESTED THAT SUCH REFUGEES SHOULD BE KEPT SEPARATE AND DETAILS GIVEN TO THE CHINESE SO THAT THEY COULD BE ACCEPTED BACK, AS HAD BEEN DONE WITH A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF CASES IN HONG KONG.
HIS WOULD HELP SOLVE THE PROBLEM AT SOURCE.
3. CATARINO UNDERTOOK TO RAISE THIS WITH THE GOVERNOR OF MACAU
(AT THIS STAGE WE SEE NO VALUE IN RAISING THE SUBJECT IN LISBON).
4. CATARINO ALSO MENTIONED THE PROPOSAL WHICH HE UNDERSTOOD THE UNHCR INTENDED TO MAKE THAT 2,000 REFUGEES BE TRANSFERRED FROM MACAU TO HONG KONG. THE POLITICAL ADVISER SAID THAT THE PORTUGESE EMBASSY IN LONDON HAD ALREADY RAISED THIS (YOUR TELNO 447) BUT THAT NO APPROACH HAD YET BEEN MADE BY UNHCR. FRANKLY, IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THE SUGGESTION WAS NOT MADE. AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE LARGE NUMBERS BEING PUSHED ON FROM MACAU, AND THE LARGE NUMBERS ALREADY IN OUR CAMPS, PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WOULD
BE LIKELY TO REACT STRONGLY AGAINST SUCH AN IDEA. HE HAD GREAT
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