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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
(89) 4th Meeting
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CABINET
DEFENCE AND OVERSEA POLICY COMMITTEE
MINUTES of a Meeting held at
10 Downing Street on
THURSDAY 8 JUNE 1989 at 11.50 am
PRESENT
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Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP ime Minister
The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Howe MP Secretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth Affairs
The Rt Hon John Wakeham MP Lord President of the Council
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The Rt Hon Lord Belstead Lord Phi
THE FOLLOWING
The Rt Hon Douglas Hurd MP
Secretary of State for the Home Department
The Rt Hon Tom King MP
seal
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Rt Hon Kenneth Baker MP Secretary of State for
Education and Science
Mr Christopher Patten MP Minister of State
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for Overseas Development
The Hon Alan Clark MP
Minister of State Department of Trade and
Industry (Minister for Trade)
SECRETARIAT
ALSO PRESENT
he Rt Hon Norman Fowler MP Secretary of State for Employment
The Rt Hon Nicholas Ridley MP Secretary
effetary of State for the Environment
The Rt Hon John Major MP Chief Secretary, Treasury
The Hon Archibald Hamilton MP
Minister of State for the Armed Forces Ministry of Defende
Sir Percy Cradock Prime Minister's
Office
Sir Robin Butler
Mr P J Weston
Mr WD Reeves
SUBJECT
THE VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE
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