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T C S Stitt Esq
South East Asian Department
Foreign & Commonwealth Office Downing Street (West)
London
SW1A 2AL
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DEPARTMENT OF TRADE PARLIAMENT SQUARE HOUSE 34-36 PARLIAMENT STREET LONDON SW1A 2ND
Telephone: 01-22x 233-8809
27 February 1980
Our Reference:
FA 243/21
19)
PA. Briefing sent. My letter of 7/3
Phwell,
7/3.
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Mo PW, 7/31
My Deputy Secretary, John Steele, is visiting Hong Kong towards the end of March to discuss various shipping matters of mutual concern to the Colony and the U K, and has asked for his brief to include a note on the general problems which Vietnamese refugees pose for British shipping. While we can cope here with a brief on general problems
I think he should also know of the special problems for Hong Kong the refugees represent and I would appreciate your advice in this respect.
Yours sirendly, Alanley Holis
(S S HOLNESS)
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