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19. 1788 IS: 10 HKGO LONDON FAX:01 493-1364
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29TH ADD QIS 30 -
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1988
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ALAN CHAN (MORNING NEWS): WHAT WILL THE
GOVERNMENT DO
IF
THE
THE VIETNAM GOVERNMENT DID NOT CO-OPERATE IX THE SOLVING OF REFUGEE PROBLEMS?
AT
LORD GLENARTHUR: WELL, WE HAVE TO CONTINUE, AS WE ARE DOING THE MOMENT, ANYHOW, BEFORE WE GET TO THAT STAGE, TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO INCREASE THE INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT TO MEND THEIR WAYS. WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO DO THAT.
WE HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR SOME TIME AND WHEN I WAS LAST HERZ IN SEPTEMBER, THE LAST SUBSTANTIVE VISIT I MADE, I ASKRO OUR AMBASSADOR FROM HANOI TO GO BACK HE WAS HERE AT THE TIME
NO GO BACK TO HANOI WITH A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT. WELL, THAT MAY NOT HAVE HAD ALL THE DESIRED EFFECT. SINCE THEN NUMBER OF EXCHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE. I HAVE DESCRIBED TO YcL HOW SIR GEOFFREY HOWE ONLY VERY RECENTLY SPOKE TO THE VIETNAMESE MINISTER AND TALKED TO HIM ABOUT IT AT GREAT LENGTH.
SORT
TO
O THE
FORSIGN
APPLY THE VIETNAMESE
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE HAVE GOT OF PRESSURE WHICH WILL... ENCOURAGEMENT AUTHORITIES TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS. LET'S NOT THINK OF WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF THEY DO NOT. THE FACT IS WE HAVEN'T GOT TO THAT POINT YET. WE MUST MAKE SURE IT JOLLY WELL WORKS,
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