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MACLIVIO
KRY NO. 51
26.5
From: D F Murray
Date: 24 April 1979
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
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1. Your letter of 11 April to Brian Smith and Hong Kong
telno 473 not to Washington.
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2. There is general agreement here that Hong Kong should not be (616)
left out of this scheme. It therefore came as a blow to learn that
Mochtar had emphatically ruled out the idea especially in view of
Darusman's earlier assurances to you (your teleletter 020/2 of
27 February).
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Our first aim now is to try to get this decision ·
reversed.
3. On instructions James Murray took the opportunity of Mochtar's
presence in Geneva to tackle him this morning. Mochtar said he
personally had no objection to Hong Kong using the island facilities
on an ad hoc and informal basis, but it would be politically
impossible for him to sell the idea to his ASEAN colleagues. He
did not like the idea of Hong Kong being represented at the 15/16 May
meeting in Jakarta. You will see James Murray's report shortly.
4. In a letter to Hugh Cortazzi dated 20 April (copy follows by
bag) the Indonesian Ambassador has formally invited British repre-
sentation at the conference "at ambassadorial level" and on the
understanding that delegates have full powers from their government.
The stated objective of the meeting is:-
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