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MUKHIS GENEVA 031645Z MAY 72
TO ROUTINE FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 134 OF 93 MAY 1979
UKK 243/1.
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- 9 MAY 1979
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INFO BANCKOK, INFO SAVINGSANOI, KUALA LUMPUR, JAKARTA, MANILA, AND SINGAPORE.
BANGKOK TELNO 226: KAMPUCHEAN REFUGEES
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1. THIS MATTER OF KAMPUCHEAN REFUGEES CAME UP BRIEFLY DURING A CALL I PAID ON 1 MAY ON THE UNKOR TO DISCUSS HONG KONG AFFAIRS. PARTLING CONFIRMED THAT HE WAS VERY WORRIED ABOUT THE SITUATION IN THAILAND. HIS REPRESENTATIVES IN THAILAND WERE DOING THEIR BEST TO PERSUADE THE THAI AUTHORITIES ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS NOT TO SEND KAMPUCHEAN REFUGEES BACK. BUT THEY WERE HAVING LITTLE SUCCESS: AND THEIR VERY EFFORTS SEEMED TO PROVOKE THE THAI AUTHOR- ITIES INTO WORSE BEHAVIOUR. HE ABDED THAT HIS REPRESENTATIVES KNEW THAT THEY WERE UNDER CRITICISH AND FELT ISOLATED AND
VULNERABLE. HE WAS VERY MUCH COUNTING ON HM AMBASSADOR AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES TO GIVE HIS REPRESENTATIVES COMFORT AND SUPPORT IN THEIR EFFORTS TO GET THE THAI AUTHORITIES TO BEHAVE RESPONSIBLY.
2. HE THOUGHT THERE COULD BE UP TO 58,933 KAMPUCHEAN REFUGEES WHO PAD RECENTLY CROSSED INTO THAILAND.
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