Registry No.
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1
DSR 11
DRAFT LETTER
Bryan Cartledge, Esq.,
Type 1 +
From
Private Secretary
Telephone No. Ext.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret, Secret-
Confidential.
Restricted:
Unclassified.
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To: -
In Confidence
No 10 Downing Street.
Department
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VIEI NAĐETE HINGEST
In your letter of 14 June you asked for advice on three
aspects of the Vietnamese refugee problem. Our comments
I4886 POİnts are as follows:
(i) The Prime Minister has now agreed (your letter of
18 June) that the Japanese should be given the
assurance which they have requested, that we will
give "most sympathetic consideration" to appli-
cations from any of the refugees on the Norse
Viking who wish to come to the United Kingdom.
This
assurance has been conveyed to the Japanese
whom we expect to be willing in return to allow
the refugees to land at Osaka pending resettlement.
We understand that only six of those on board the
Norse Viking are likely to want to come to this
country; we assume that these would be acceptable
under our existing quota.
(ii) on 18 June the Prime Minister sent a further
message to Dr Waldheim urging him to convene a
conference. The Foreign Ministers of the Nine
agreed the same day in Paris to approach the
(UNHCR) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to
ask for a conference to be convened under the
aegis of the United Nations. (This question wilL
probably also be discussed at the European Council
Meeting in Strasbourg on
21 June). We have
also continued to urge other countries to support the Prime Minister's proposal, As regards the
UK's stance at such a conference, you will have
ountries
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