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YOUR TELNO 1266:
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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES : US PROGRAMME
We agree that Washington should thank the Americans,
Your report was confirmed (on 29 September by Rosenblatt
of the US Khmer Emergency Group (KEG) in Bangkok pasa! through hominh.
2.
Rosenblatt briefed SEAD on the recent US Congressional
hearings on refugees, and was obviously under instructions
to make one point to us very clearly. This was that
is aftake from Hong Kong the continuation of the monthly 1,500 quots would
depend heavily on the State Department's ability to
convince Congress that other resettlement countries,
particularly UK, were continuing to carry a fair share
of the burden.
Rosenblatt indicated that acceleration
would help, that
a as cas d/es
of the present 10,000 quota,
and/establishment of
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