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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG
1.
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Mr. Mc Quade #214 Pl. consuler & speah
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The Secretary of State has looked briefly at Lord Belstead' Minute of 12 April and has asked if the recommendation and draft telegrams could be looked at again in the light of the optimistic remarks made by Mr Hartling's (UNHCR) about Hong Kong and Vietnamese refugees (Record attached),
2.
Lord Belstead would be grateful for further advice from the Department on this basis.
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20 April 1983
M A Arthur PS/Lord Belstead
Mr. McQuade
Mr Clift
-Mr.
Pse circulas (UND ISEAD befor sextimising to Miclips.
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1. I have discussed this with SEAD and UND and agreed the general lines along which we
might take into account the remarks that passed between
Mr. Harthing and the keretary of State
2.9 attach a draft minute that we might to submit to Lood Beletead to send to the Secretary of State, together with revised telegrams of instruction.
I have not shown these drafts to SEAD and UNID as
comment
on
them before
we
circulate them.
you may
Tom Smith 244
wish to