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avoid danger of disturbing ODP arrangements.
need to stay in close touch with UNHCR to avoid running counter to what they have done so far.
Nash and Carter have added various marginal comments that are essentially covered in the above.
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My interim conclusion is that none of this is insuperable, although of course each amendment switches the argument in the submission further from Hanoi and more to the old well-trodden paths. The most substantial points are the degree to which we should focus on involuntary repatriation, and whether we should. mention it to the Vietnamese as such; and our relations with UNHCR in this exercise. (The point about ODP seems to me to border upon the irrelvant.)
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We need to thrash all this out with SEAD. Frankly, the only means I (or Mr Nash) can envisage of our doing so is through a meeting between Mr Hartland-Swann and yourself.
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Hong Kong Department
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