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JAKARTA................

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REPEATED TO (for info) PRIORITY... KUALA LUMPUR, SINGAPORE, BANGKOK, MANILA

UKMIS GENEVA,

WASHINGTON

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PS/LORD GORONWY -

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SIR A DUFF

SIR A PARSONS

MR CORTAZZI

MR LEAHY

MR MURRAY

Copies To

YOUR TEL NO 118 AND TELEPHONE CONVERSATION FURNESS/MORGAN OF 1 MAY: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

and Washingten hel 941 (not to all )

I asked the Indonesian Ambassador to call on 1 May

to discuss the question of Hong Kong and followed up the

discussion by writing to him on 2 May (text in MIFT).

undertook to telegraph the contents to Jakarta.

2.

Please pass a copy of the Letter to Darusman to

reinforce your earlier representations, and urge him to

to let us have a favourable decision ble

pefore 8 May.

He

We shall

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otherwise be obliged to submit to the new government here

in much less constructive terms that we should wish

your own information, if Furness' expectation that the centre is likely to be9mainly for the Indonesians' refugees,

but funded by the international community through UNHCR,

HONG KONG GOVERNMENTNe would not see advantage in making a contribution

OFFICE LONDON

to its establishment or running costs.)

MR BURLEIGH,

HOME OFFICE,

QUEEN ANNE'S GATE

MR BIRT

HOME OFFICE LUNAR HOUSE CROYDON

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