TNAG-0794-FCO40-998-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1978 — Page 68

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FN MONG KONG 251216Z DEC 78

TO IMMEDIATE FCO

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TELEGRAM NUMBER 1486 OF 25 DECEMBER

INFO IMMEDIATE UKMIS GENEVA

384

WASHINGTON

CANBERRA MANILA

KUALA LUMPUR

SINGAPORE

KONG GOVT OFFICE LONDON

INFO SAVING HANOI.

(383)

MIPT: HUEY FONG.

See (387)

PRIORITY PEKING

BANGKOK AND HONG

HKK 243/1

RALEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51 29 DEC 1978

DASK OF

THE TEXT OF THE UNHCR UNDERTAKING IS AS FOLLOWS: INDEX

No

ti

Action Ten

129/12 CLE

''THE UNHCR WISH TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE DISPLACED PERSONS FROM VIETNAM ON BOARD THE HUEY FONG ARE OF CONCERN TO THE UNHCR.

THE UNHCR WILL ASSIST THEM TO RE-SETTLE IN THIRD COUNTRIES

THIS ASSURANCE WOULD WHEREVER THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DISEMBARK. APPLY TO THOSE LANDED IN TAIWAN.

ALTHOUGH THE UNHCR DO NOT THEMSELVES HAVE AN OFFICE IN TAIWAN, THEY WOULD GIVE ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE, MATERIAL AND OTHERWISE, TO DISPLACED PERSONS LANDING THERE BY OPERATING THROUGH THIRD PARTIES AS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST.

SIGNED : ANGELO RASANAYAGAM,

UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSION FOR REFUGEES, HONG KONG.

FCO PASS SAVING TO HANOI.

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]

MACLEHOSE

FILES

UND

HK & GD

SEAD

FED

PS

PS/LORD GORONWY ROBERTS

PS/MR.LUARD

PS/PUS

MR.WEIR

MR. CORTAZZI

MR.MURRAY

COPIES TO:

MR.C.BIRT HOME OFFICE

LUNAR HOUSE, CROYDON

MR.P.BURLEIGH HOME OFFICE

QUEEN ANNE'S GATE

HONG KONG GOVT. OFFICE IN

LONDON.

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