TNAG-0885-FCO40-1095-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 147

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5 May 1979

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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

SPEECH BY FINANCIAL SECRETARY

AT ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

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You will have seen from Manila telno 157 (not to all) that the Financial Secretary, Philip Haddon- Cave, spoke in detail of our concerns about the growing problem of refugees from Vietnam in his statement to the Asian Development Bank Plenary Session on 3 May. attach the full text.

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There are some minor discrepancies in figures between the Financial Secretary's speech and those given in our telno 528. None of them are significant and they simply flow from the slightly different methods by which refugee statistics are collected and circulated within different parts of the Goverment.

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