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the Lord Frivy Seal recommends that the Frime Minister should send messages to the Malaysian Prime Minister and the UN Secretary General along the lines of those in the attached
draft telegrams to Kuala Lumpur and New York. The Lord Privy Seal has also instructed Mr Cortazzi to summon the Acting Malaysian High Commissioner to express our serious concern about the problems facing the refugees from Vietnam.
We are, in accordance with the Prime Minister's wishes, maintaining our pressure on Dr Waldheim to call an early conference. The Lord Privy Seal thinks that, inevitably, in the light of this and developments in Malaysia and Thailand, that the UK contribution will come under scrutiny. The Hong Kong Government will also have increasing difficulty in maintaining its humane policies unless we can offer them some
relief. He would appreciate an early opportunity to have a word on this with the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary.
am copying this letter to the Private Secretaries to the Home Secretary and Sir John Hunt.
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Yours Supnen Gomerswer
S J Gomersall
Private Secretary to the Lord Privy Seal
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