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HONG KONG TELNOS 263 AND 288 : REPATRIATION OF VIETNAMESE
After discussions in London between Lord Belstead an
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the Governor of Hong Kong, I have decided that you should
in the first instance sound out the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (at Nguyen Co Thach's level if necessary) to see
if they would be prepared to accept boat people returned
in the circumstances in first TUR, and if so what sort of
punishment they might receive. If they say that there
would be no reprisals or that repatriates would be
leniently treated, you should ask what sort of guarantees
they could offer, but you should not discuss any role
which we or the Vietnamese might like to see UNHCR assume
in monitoring the rehabilitation of boat people. We