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TELEGRAM NUMBER 447 OF 6 JUNE
INFO SAVING UKMIS GENEVA:
LISBON: BTC HONG KONG
YOUR TELNO 734:
1.
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
PARA.5 OF YOUR TUR AGREED.
2. YOU SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT PORTUGUESE COUNSELLOR CALLED ON
HEAD OF SED TO ASK THAT WE DO ALL WE CAN TO ENSURE A FAVOURABLE
RESPONSE FROM YOU TO UNHCR'S IMMINENT APPROACH TO YOU TO TAKE
2,000 VIETNAMESE REFUGEES FROM MACAU. MACHADO SAID THAT MACAU
NOW HAD NEARLY 5,000 VIETNAMESE AND COULD NOT TAKE ANY MORE. HONG
KONG WAS BETTER ABLE TO COPE WITH THE INFLUX AND 30,000 HAD LEFT
IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS WHILST MACAU HAD ONLY GOT RID OF 500.
MACAU HAD AFTER ALL TAKEN 866 FROM HONG KONG IN 1978.
3. DAUNT GAVE NO UNDERTAKING THAT A FAVOURABLE RESPONSE WOULD BE
FORTHCOMING.
4. GRATEFUL FOR YOUR VIEWS.
CARRINGTON
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