GRS 250
RESTRICTED
Аб
سماكة
ཡཡཱ ཏཙཱཏྟཱ
RESTRICTED
FM MANILA
TO ROUTINE HONG KONG
TELNO 1
OF 0901062 JANUARY 86
37
MKK 243/3 (85).
او
YOUR TELNO 41 (OF 1985): VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: VISIT OF WOODHOUSE.
1. WE SPOKE TO BAYER ON THE LINES SUGGESTED IN TUR ON
HIS RETURN FROM LEAVE ON 7 JANUARY AND SENT HIM A COPY OF
THE LETTER IN YOUR TELNO 42. BAYER DID NOT SEEM CONVINCED
BY OUR ARGUMENTS. WOODHOUSE WILL NO DOUBT WISH TO GO OVER THE GROUND WITH HIM AGAIN IN FEBRUARY BUT WE SHOULD BE HAPPY TO RETURN TO THE CHARGE IF THERE ARE ANY NEW POINTS YOU WOULD LIKE US TO MAKE IN THE MEANTIME.
2.
MANGU-LATN DIRECTOR OF THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION IN
H
াড়
THE MFA (THE OFFICIAL RESPONSIBLE FOR REFUGEES MATTERS HERE) WILL BE HAPPY TO SEE WOODHOUSE. WE HAVE SUGGESTED AN APPOINTMENT ON THE AFTERNOON OF 17 FEBRUARY. ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY PARTICULAR POINTS HE MIGHT WISH TO RAISE MANGUIAT MENTIONED
''UNHCR'S PROBLEM WITH EX-CHINA REFUGEES' BUT HE DID NOT
SEEM PARTICULARLY EXERCISED ON THE SUBJECT.
3. MANGUIAT IS HAPPY FOR US TO LIAISE WITH UNHCR ON THE
REST OF THE PROGRAMME AND WE HAVE PROVISIONALLY ARRANGED WITH BAYER THAT WOODHOUSE SHOULD VISIT PALAWAN ON 18/19 FEBRUARY AND BATAAN ON 20 FEBRUARY. BAYER IS IN DIRECT CONTACT WITH HIS OFFICE IN HONG KONG ON DETAILED TIMING. WE SHALL CONTACT HIM AGAIN NEARER
THE TIME TO CONFIRM THAT THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS.
MCLAREN
BOAT PEOPLE
LIMITED
SEAD
HKD
UND
FED
NEWS D
ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION
BOAT PEOPLE
MAED
PS
PS/MR RENTON PS/PUS
MR GOODALL
SIR W HARDING
MR O'NEILL MR WILSON
RESTRICTED
MKK 243/2 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
09 JAN1986
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