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6. HARTLING SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE IN MACAU BUT WAS HAVING DIFFICULTIES WITH THE PORTUGUESE AND ASKED
IF WE COULD TACKLE THEN IN LISBON. IF YOU HAVE NO OBJECTION I SHOULD BE GRATEFUL IF LISBON COULD TAKE THIS UP.
7. HE THEN COMMENTED ON HIS OVERALL STAFFING PROBLEMS AND THE EFFECT OF THE ZERO GROWTH RATE IMPOSED ON THE SPECIALISED AGENCIES SY THE UN SECRETARIAT WITH THE STRONG SUPPORT OF THE AMERICANS. IT WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET APPROVAL FOR ANY INCREASE IN STAFF AND HE WAS THEREFORE OBLIGED TO PAY FOR INCREASED STAFF OUT OF VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. IT WAS NOT LOGICAL FOR WESTERN COUNTRIES TO EXPECT UNHCR TO TAKE ON THIS GREATLY INCREASED WORK LOAD AND THEN TO OPPOSE UNHCR STAFF INCREASES IN THE ACBAQ. HE THEN APPEALED TO US TJ SUPPORT UNHCR IN THE ACBAQ. I WOULD HOPE WE COULD BE MORE SYMPATHETIC TO UNHCR'S VERY REAL NEED FOR MORF STAFF.
8. WE ALSO DISCUSSED CFFERS BY RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES. HARTLING, WHO HAD ONLY JUST RETURNED FROM VIENNA, SAID THAT THE AUSTRIANS WERE FORTHCOMING(HE RECALLED THAT IN 1956 AUSTRIA HAD RECEIVED
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207,890 HUNGARIAN REFUGEES WHICH WAS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT A SHALL COUNTRY COULD DO IF IT HAD TC). THE DANES HAD PROMISED 533 WHEN THEY HAD ABSORBED THEIR CHILEAN QUOTA: HE FELT AUSTRALIA COULD DO MORE: UNHCR HAD BEEN IN TOUCH WITH THE LATIN AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS (EVEN ENLISTING THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE POPE), AS HAD US AMBASSADORS DUT THE ONLY REALISTIC OFFER HAD COME FROM SURINAM. HE WOULD, HOWEVER, KEEP UP THE PRESSURE.
2. HARTLING GAVE ME A COPY OF THE SECRETARY CENERAL'S APPEAL OF 24 MAY TO HEADS OF GOVERNMENTS WHICH HE INDICATED HAD BEEN COORDINATED .ITH HIM. I MENTIONED ECOSOC AS PERHAPS THE NEXT FORUM IN THE INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR WHICH COULD PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A DEBATE. WHILST NOT OBJECTING HE WAS NOT ENTHUSIASTIC AS HE DID NOT THINK IT WOULD ACHIEVE ANYTHING (WITNESS THE DEBATE ON THE HORN OF AFRICA LAST SUMMER). UNHCR HAVE NO IMMEDIATE PLANS TO ISSUE AN APPEAL FOR THEIR SOUTH EAST ASIAN PROGRAMME, BUT THEY REALISE THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO SOCHER OR LATER. I HOPE THAT COMIDERATION CAN BE GIVEN J ADVANCE TO A UK CONTRIBUTION AT LEAST MATCHING OUR PREVIOUS ONES.
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