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Private Secretary

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UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES

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REGISTRY

Action Taken

- AF 27/4

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PA (rikk 243/1).

13/14

1. I submit Points to Make and Essential Facts for Mr Hartling's call on the Secretary of State on 14 April. HKGD, SEAD, SAD and EAD agree. Mr Raison will also attend.

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Mr Hartling is also seeing the Home Secretary and the Commonwealth Secretary-General and addressing meetings of the British Refugee Council, the Parliamentary Panel on Refugees (chaired by Mr David Ennals MP), the Liberal International Group and the United Nations Association.

3. I recommend that the Secretary of State take the opportunity to discuss with Mr Hartling the possibility of a multilateral approach to the question of Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong (on which there is also a separate submission). Mr Hartling will probably press us (and Mr Whitelaw) on a new UK quota.

12 April 1983

cc: PS/Lord Belstead

SEAD

HKGD

EAD SAD

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N CR Williams

United Nations Department

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