CONFIDENTIAL
012341 MDHIAN 9468
IN PRACTICE BOTH VIETNAMESE AND PEOPLE IN HONG KONG MISUNDERSTOOD THE NEW MEASURES. THEY THOUGHT THAT, SINCE PEOPLE ARRIVING BEFORE JULY WERE BEING LET OUT, VIETNAMESE ARRIVING AFTERWARDS WOULD ONLY HAVE TO WAIT FOR A TIME IN CAMPS BEFORE BEING RELEASED.
6. PA SAID IT WAS IN ORDER TO CONSIDER SUCH MISUNDERSTANDING THAT WE LOOKED FOR CHINESE COOPERATION. ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WAS CONTINUING ASSISTANCE FOR COAST HOPPERS, WHICH HAD CONTRIBUTED TO ENCOURAGING BOAT PEOPLE TO COME.
7. JI SAID THE CPG HAD INDEED GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS TO PROVINCES. WE MUST NOT ALWAYS BELIEVE THE VIETNAMESE WHO, HE CLAIMED, WOULD ASK FOR ASSISTANCE FROM COASTAL PORTS SAYING THEY INTENDED TO RETURN TO VIETNAM BUT INSTEAD WERE GOING TO HONG KONG. THE CHINESE ONLY GAVE THEM HUMANE ASSISTANCE.
8. CLIFT REPEATED EARLIER REQUESTS FOR URGENT REPATRIATION OF ECVIIS IN WHICH WE HAD PROPOSED A HKG VISIT TO NANNING. JI HAD NOTHING
NEW ON THAT.
9. JI ENDED BY UNDERTAKING TO REPORT TO HIS SUPERIORS. THEY
WOULD FIND OUT THE MFAS REACTION TO THE PARALLEL APPROACH IN PEKING.
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.VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HK
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HKD
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UND
LEGAL ADVISERS
PUSD
ECD (E)
FED
ADDITIONAL
6
NEWS
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PS/LORD GLENARTHUR
PS/MR PATTEN ODA
PS MR EGGAR
PS/PUS
MR GILLMORE
MR SLATER
MR MCLAREN