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Mr Quantrill (Hong Kong & General Dept K247)

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

1. I attach a copy of a letter from Hong Kong to Mr Figg which you may not have seen.

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I understand that UN Department, who have co-ordinated approaches from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok on this subject and relayed them to the Home Office, intend to call a meeting very shortly to discuss HMG's priorities in taking Vietnamese refugees. No doubt you will wish to attend such a meeting.

1 September 1978

cc: Mr Beattie (UN Dept K 153)

Mr Mallett (MVD CL 408)

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