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TELEGRAM NUMBER 163 OF 4 JUNE
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO 237: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
1. CORTAZZI CALLED IN THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR THIS AFTERNOON TO SEEK SUPPORT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND ASSISTANCE OVER THE REFUGEE CRISIS IN HONG KONG.
2. CORTAZZI RECALLED THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S DISCUSSION WITH MR SONONDA. SUBSEQUENT EVIDENCE REACHING US FROM VIETNAM AND FROM REFUGEES REACHING 11ONG KONG MADE IT CLEAR THAT THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT ONLY CARRYING OUT A DELIBERATE POLICY OF PERSECUTION OF SUPPORTERS OF THE OLD SOUTH VIETNAMESE REGIME, BUT ALSO INTENDED TO EXPEL THE BULK OF THEIR ETHNIC CHINESE COMMUNITY OF OVER 800,000. WE BELIEVED THAT AS MANY AS TWO THIRDS OF THE REFUGEES WHO LEFT IN SMALL BOATS FAILED TO REACH LAND.
3. BRITISH POLICY HAD TWO ASPECTS:
IN THE LONGER TERM, TO EXERT PRESSURE ON THE
VIETNAMESE TO AMELIORATE THE REFUGEES' PLIGHT, AND
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IN THE SHORTER TERM TO SEEK MORE ASSISTANCE IN RESETTLING REFUGEES. WE WERE ASKING THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TO INSTRUCT THEIR AMBASSADOR IN HANOI TO SPEAK IN STRONG TERMS TO THE VIETNAMESE, AS WE HAD DONE, AND IF POSSIBLE TO CALL IN THE VIETNAMESE AMBASSADOR IN TOKYO. WE WOULD ALSO ASK
THEM TO SUPPORT CUR INDIRECT REPRESENTATIONS: WE HAD SPOKEN TO THE SOVIET UNION, AND WOULD BE MAKING REPRESENTATIONS
TO EVERY STATE REPRESENTED IN LONDON WHICH HAD A MISSION IN HANOI. OUR AMBASSADORS WOULD BE ACTING IN PARALLEL.
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