for Refugees (UNHCR) who
suen
maintain detailed
records of
(numbering
information. UNHCR are also preparing a list of the
name s and personal details of the refugees concerned,
together with list of unaccompanied minors
about 100), whose cases we hope you may also be able to
consider. The lists will be passed direct to the French
Consulate-General, which we understand has already been
instructed to re-examine relevant cases. (Our Embassy in
Paris were informed of this by M.
Marchand, of M.
Dumas' Cabinet.) We shall also ask the Embassy to give a
copy of the list to your officials at the Quai d'Orsay.
matter.
the
the
I am most grateful to you for your interest in
in this
The British Government fully appreciates
large Indo-Chinese refugee burden which France has
shouldered in recent years, and well understands
difficulties that this must have imposed on the French
Government. We would nevertheless be very grateful for
any thing you can do to assist with the resettlement of
some of the refugees who are now in Hong Kong.