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RECEIVED A 220MAY NO. 51
1 JUN 1970
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MESSAGE TO THE PRIME MINISTER FROM THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
With your letter of 25 May to Stephen Wall you enclosed a telegram to the Prime Minister from the UN Secretary-General. in which Dr Waldheim appealed for further offers of resettlement places for Indo-China refugees and additional financial support for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We understand that the same message was addressed to 51 other
Heads of Government.
The Lord Frivy Seal believes that Mrs Thatcher's reply, ir addition to explaining what the United Kingdom has done,
provides the opportunity for a cell to Dr Waldheim to convene an international conference under his own aegis without delay. I enclose a draft message which could be telegraphed to our Mission in New York for immediate delivery. It is deliberately worded to enable us to tell Dr Waldheim separately but in confidence that we expect a conference to deal with both aspects of the problem: pressure on Vietnam and action to resettle the refugees now flooding into South East Asia. If the Frime Minister agrees, Sir Ian Gilmour will instruct our Mission in New York accordingly.
Sir Ian Gilmour also recommends that Mrs Thatcher's
message should be published here as soon as we know that Dr
Waldheim has received it.
I am copying this letter to John Chilcot in the Home
Office and to Martin Vile in the Cabinet Office.
Supmersan дирет
S J Gomersall
Private Secretary to the Lord Privy Seal
BG Cartledge Esq
No 10 Downing Street
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