TNAG-0586-FCO40-719-Aid-from-UK-for-Vietnamese-refugees-in-Hong-Kong-1976 — Page 35

Mr. Rushford

USHFORD

HONG KONG:

ONG

CONFIDENTIAL

$2

Reference.....HKK 24.3/548/1.

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

1. Thank you for your Minute of 20 July.

2. I should be grateful for your opinion on whether there is any legal basis for the Burmese view that a master of a ship picking up distressed persons at sea is entitled to expect that the authorities at his next port of call will be prepared to admit such persons.

2.F. Mill

D F Milton

Hong Kong Departmant

23 July 1976

copies:

Mr Goldsmith Mr Morgan

233 4381

SEAD

UND

P.T.O

CONFIDENTIAL

6197 D073528 200M 2/74 Cr.P.C. 839/3