TNAG-0880-FCO40-1090-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 78

TO DENTALS, INDONESTA

HOPED THAT THE AMERICANS WOULD DISCUSS THIS PROPOSAL WITH OTHER RECIPIENT COUNTRIES.

DESPITE 3. CORTAZZI EXPRESSED BRITISH SYMPATHY AND SAID THAT OUR DIFFICULTIES, WE WERE TRYING EXTREMELY HARD TO HELP AND HAD · DONE WHAT WE COULD IN AGREEING TO RECEIVE A FURTHER 1500 REFUGEES FROM HONG KONG, THAILAND AND MALAYSIA. WE HAD ALSO MADE AND WOULD CONTINUE TO MAKE GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNHCR, WE REALISED HOW IMPORTANT THE PROBLEM WAS FOR THE AREA AND HAD RAISED THE ISSUE IN THE HIGHEST FORA. ZAKARAI SAID THAT OUR EFFORTS WERE GREATLY APPRECIATED, NOT SO MUCH FOR THE NUMBER WE WOULD TAKE FROM MALAYSIA, BUT BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURE IT WOULD BRING TO BEAR ON THE AMERICANS, WHOM THE MALAYSIANS REGARDED AS PRIMARILY AT FAULT IN NOT DOING ENOUGH.

VIENTAINE PASS SAVING TO HANOI

HAWLEY

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