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FM MANILA 8108372 JUNE 79
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 283 OF 1 JUNE
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INFO PRIORITY KUALA LUMPUR, BANGKOK, SINGAPORE, JAKAY GOVERNORI HỮNG KONG, UKMIS GENEVA, UKMIS NEW YORK, PEKING, MOSCOW, WASHINGTON AND HANO1.
SAVING TO CANBERRA, WELLINGTON, PARIS, BONN, UKREP BRUSSELS.
YOUR TELNO 120 TO KUALA LUMPUR: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES/ASEAN.
1. HEAD OF CHANCERY CALLED TODAY ON MANALO, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS, WHO HAD LED PHILIPPINE DELEGATION TO ISLAND
PROCESSING CENTRE MEETING IN JAKARTA ON 15 MAY. H OF C SPOKE ON LINES OF TUR AND LEFT AN AIDE MEMOIRE BASED THEREON, HE ALSO ORALLY
COVERED LATEST DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDING PRIME MINISTER'S APPEAL
TO THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL TO CONVENE A FURTHER UN CONFERENCE
ON THE SUBJECT.
2. MANALO TOOK CAREFUL NOTE AND SAID PHILIPPINES WERE GRAVELY
WORRIED ABOUT THE SITUATION AND WOULD CONSIDER FURTHER ACTION
IN CONSULTATION WITH ASEAN COLLEAGUES. HE SUGGESTED THAT ASEAN
FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING IN BALI AT END OF THE MONTH WOULD BE
APPROPRIATE FORUM TO CONSIDER WHAT FURTHER ACTION MIGHT BE TAKEN.
H OF C SAID THAT THIS PROPOSED TIMING TOOK NO ACCOUNT OF IMMEDIATE
AND RAPIDLY GROWING SERIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION: HE URGED PROMPT
CONSULTATION AND ACTION.
3. MANALO SAID THE PHILIPPINES DID NOT WANT TO PROVOKE VIETNAM.
HE SAID THAT UN SECR JX ARY-GENERAL AND UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE HAD
RETURNED FROM HANOI WITH SAME OPTIMISM ABOUT VIETNAM'S FUTURE
CONDUCT. H OF C POINTED OUT THAT VIETNAM'S PRESENT CONDUCT DID
NOT SUGGEST AND DEGREE OF CREDIBILITY. MANALO AGREED BUT SAID THE PHILIPPINES WOULD PREFER TO WORK THROUGH THE UNHCR: THEY DID NOT
WISH TO ANTAGONISE VIETNAM. THEY WERE ALREADY IN TROUBLE WITH
THE VIETNAMESE OVER THE LINE TAKEN INTO THE U.N. TOWARDS INDO-CHINA. H OF C STRESSED THAT. A COORDINATED ASEAN APPROACH TO VIETNAM,
TO THE USSR, AND TO POTENTIAL RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES WAS BOUND TO BE TAKEN NOTICE OF AN WOULD COMMAND THE GENERAL SUPPORT OF THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: WITHOUT SUCH ACTION THE SITUATION COULD
ONLY DETERIORATE, WITH MASSIVE ATTENDANT PROBLEMS FOR THE WHOLE
RREGION.
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