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6. HAN A HARD-HITTHING STATEMENT THE US REPRESENTATIVE (FUNSETH) SAID THAT THE US WAS READY TO RESPECT THE 1979 MEMORANDUM OF
UNDERSTANDING ESTABLISHING ODP. THEY EXPECTED WIETNAM TO DO THE SAME. US ODP SHOULD BE REINSTATED WITHOUT DELAY. VIETNAM SHOULD ALSO ACCEPT US PROPOSALS TO TAKE 15,000 AMERASHAN CHILDREN AND 10,000 POLITICAL: PRISONERS OVER A THREE-YEAR PERIOD.
7. THE UK SPOKE ALONG THE LINES HIN YOUR TUR, EMPHASHISING THE DIFFERENT CHARACTER OF UK ODP WHERE ENTRY CLEARANCE HAD ALREADY BEEN GIVEN TO THOSE WHOSE NAMES WERE SUBMITTED TO THE WIETNAMESE
AUTHORITIES. WE ALSO PRED THE VIETNAMESE POSITION ON VOLUNTARY
REPATRIKATION. FULL TEXT OF UK STATEMENT FOLLOWS BY BAG.
8. SEVERAL OTHER DELEGATHONS SPOKE, HINCLUDING AUSTRALIA CANADA FRANCE FRG JAPAN, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY AND SWEDEN. ALL NOTED
DECREASED ODP DEPARTURE RATES AND CALLED ON VIETNAM TO RESTORE ODP TO PRE-1986 LEVELS, TO GIVE BETTER COOPERATION TO RECEIVING
COUNTRIES AND TO #MPROVE THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES.
9. YO YAN SUNGU #IN RESPONSE, DWELT ONCE AGAIN ON VIETNAMESE
PREOCCUPATHONS OVER THE BACK-LOG OF CASES BUT GAVE NO EXPLANATION
FOR DELAYS AND REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF ODP DEPARTURES. HE OFFERED
FURTHER BILATERAL: CONTACTS EUTHER MIN GENEVA THIS WEEK OR IN HANO
SUBSEQUENTLY. MEANWHILE HIT WOULD ADD TO VIETNAM'S PROBLEMS NF INTERVIEWING WAS RESUMED BEFORE THE BACK-LOG HAD BEEN CLEARED. (MT WAS NOT CLEAR WHETHER THIS COMMENT WAS AIMED AT THE US AND FRANCE #M
PARTICULAR OR APPLIED ACROSS THE BOARD).
10. WIN RESPONSE TO THE UK POINT ABOUT VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION VO VAN
SUNG SAND THAT THE TOME WAS NOT RIIPE FOR THUS. IT COULD ONLY BE
CONSIDERED ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS. HF THE UK HAD SUCH UNDVÍDUAL
CASES THEY SHOULD BE HANDLED THROUGH THE WIETNAMESE EMBASSY (N
LONDON OR THE BRUMISH EMBASSY UN HANOI
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11. THE VIETNAMESE LHINE AT THIS MEETHING WAS CHARACTERMISTHICALLY AGGRESSIVE AND UNREPENTANT. THERE WAS NO REAL· DINALOGUE," WITH THE VIETNAMESE CONCENTRATHING ON THE BACK-LOG OF PEOPLE WITH EXINT VINSAS AWANTING DECISIONS BY RECEÊNING COUNTRIES, AND OTHER DELEGATIONS CONCERNED OVER FALLING RATES OF DEPARTURE VIETNAMESE UNCOOPERATIVENESS AND, HIN OUR CASE [WITH SUPPORT FROM THE FRG AND AUSTRALIA) VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION.
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