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MDLOAN 5492
COMPLETELY. A MANIFESTATION OF THAT RESOLVE HAD BEEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF 50,000 TROOPS AND THE
HANDER OF THE MILITARY FORCES BY THE END OF THE REMAINING FORCES WOULD BE WITHDRAWN NO MATTER WHATE THE COURSE OF 1990. IN THE EVENT OF A POLITICAL VALILEOULD OF COURSE WITHDRAW EARLTER,” IE BY THE PIRS QUARTER OF 1990. VIETNAM WOULD PUT FORWARD A TIMETABLE FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF THEIR REMAINING FORCES IN PARALLEL WITH MEASUR TO PREVENT THE RETURN OF THE POL POT CLIQUE HE NOTED T
THAT H MLY COUNTRY STILL DEMANDING UNCONDITIONAL WITHDRAWAL VE CHINA
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG
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5. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID THAT IT WAS ESSENTIAL THAT NON-REFUGEE BOAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE RETURNED TO VIETNAM NUMBERS HAD INCREASED AND THE SITUATION WAS UNTENABLE ALSO UP TO VIETNAM TO FIND A SOLUTION TO STOP PEOPLE LEAVING BOAT
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TRAN SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO BRIEF THE SECRETARY OF STATE A THE LOREEMENT THEY HAD REACHED WITH THE MALAYSIANS OF THIS
WHICH PROVIDED FOR THE PRINCIPLE OF VOLUNTARY RETURI PUREES. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN PEOPLE ENIGRATED FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REASONS: AFTER 40 YEAR WAR IN VIETNAM, THE REASONS MOST PEOPLE LEFT WERE VERY COMPLE VIETNAM AND MALAYSIA HAD AGREED TO TACKLE THE ISSUE AS A HUMANITARIAN ONE. THAT MEANT THERE SHOULD BE NO COERCION TO FORCE PEOPLE TO LEAVE OR RETURN. VIETNAM HAD AGREED TO SEND EXPERT TEAMS TO MALAYSIA TO EXPLAIN TO THE VIETNAMESE THERE IF THEY RETURNED THEY WOULD BE GUARANTEED NORMAL TREATMENT AND WOULD SUFFER NO SANCTIONS OR DISCRIMINATION. ON THE VIETNAMESE SIDE MEASURES WOULD BE TAKEN TO PREVENT THE DEPARTURE OF REFUGEES BY SEVERELY PUNISHING THE ORGANISERS OF ILLEGAL DEPARTURES AND BY EXPLAINING THE VICISSITUDES SUFFERED BY TH PEOPLE WHO HAD LEFT. HE WOULD TAKE THE MATTER BACK TO HANOI WOULD BE IN TOUCH THROUGH OUR EMBASSY.
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7. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE OCTOBER MEETING SHOULD REACH AGREEMENT ON THE RETURN OF ALL NON-REFUGEES. VIETNAM SHOULD TAKE BACK SPEEDILY THOSE IN HONG KONG WHO HAD SAID THEY WANTED TO GO BACK.
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