TEDAAS
CONFIDENTIAL
25619/5
FROM: A R Paul
HKB 243/11
DATE :
30MAY 1989
Hong Kong Department
18 May 1989
CC : PS/Lord Glenarthur
PS/Mr Patten
PS/Mr Eggar
PS/PUS
Mr Gillmore
Mr Caines, ODA
Mr Ireton, ODA
Mr Manning, ODA
Mr Blatherwick
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Mr Crabbie, RMD
Mr Colvin, SEAD
Mr Brenton, UND
McLaren
Mr McLaren
Private Secretary
VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE : RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS
1.
Ministers have agreed that the Secretary of State should write
to the Chief Secretary to warn him that the Vietnamese boat people crisis in Hong Kong may make it necessary for him to ask for
additional funds from the Reserve.
I submit a self-explanatory draft, which has been cleared with the ODA and Mr Crabbie (RMD).
2.
3.
Needless to say, the resource managers of both the ODA and the
Diplomatic Wing would be very reluctant to have to take on new
expenditure of the kind described in the draft, but recognise that
there may be no alternative.
CONF IDENTIAL
ARPAN
A R Paul
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