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10 February 1992
FCO Ministers
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Sir John Coles
Mr Burns
Mr Hewitt, SEAD
Mr Ricketts, HKD
Ms Evans, UND Special Advisers
Secretary of State
GENEVA, 7 FEBRUARY
1. I spent Friday 7 February in Geneva talking to
Mrs Ogata (UNHCR), James Purcell (International Organisation of Migration) and Sommaruga (ICRC) mainly about Vietnamese migrants and Cambodia.
2. I think that two points are worth drawing to your attention. Firstly, Mrs Ogata showed herself encouragingly co-operative on a number of detailed points that will help us make progress with the return of
Vietnamese migrants. These include a willingness to
consider mixed flights of ORP returnees and volunteers, agreement to consider making returnee payments to the Vietnamese communities receiving them rather than to the
individuals (something for which the Vietnamese
authorities pressed when I was there last month) and a
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