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YOUR TELELETTER (PRENTICE/LEEKS) OF 19 DECEMBER AND HONG KONG TELNO 38 TO YOU: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG: US POLICY
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OVER LUNCH WITH NASH (SEAD) ON 17 DECEMBER, HUGH
NEIGHBOUR (US EMBASSY) GAVE WHAT APPEARED TO BE A FORMAL US
RESPONSE TO OUR DEMARCHE. THIS WAS THAT DURING FISCAL YEAR 1986, IE FROM OCTOBER 1986, THE US WOULD CONSIDER AN OFFTAKE FROM HONG KONG OF AROUND 1600 (ABOUT THE SAME AS IN FY 1985). THE EXACT
TERMS OF THE RESPONSE ARE GIVEN IN MIFT WHICH CONTAINS TEXT OF
STATE DEPARTMENT TELEGRAM OF INSTRUCTION TO US EMBASSY IN LONDON.
YOU SHOULD NOT REPEAT NOT REVEAL THAT NEIGHBOUR HANDED OVER THE
US TELEGRAM AS HE WAS APPARENTLY GOING BEYOND HIS WRITTEN
INSTRUCTIONS IN DOING SO.
2.
IN REPLY NASH SAID THAT HE WOULD REPORT THE SUBSTANCE OF
THE US RESPONSE. WHILE THANKING THE US FOR ITS CONTRIBUTION TO
DATE, HE SAID THAT HE HOPED THAT THE US GOVERNMENT WOULD
RECONSIDER ITS DECISION NOT TO INCREASE ITS OFFTAKE DURING
1985/86. IT WAS MOST IMPORTANT FOR HMG IN THE CONTEXT OF SCORRI
FOR THERE TO BE A POSITIVE US RESPONSE. ALL THE OTHER POTENTIAL
RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES, SMALL AND LARGE, WHOM
HMG HAD BEEN LOBBYING, WOULD LOOK TO THE UNITED STATES. THE
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