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UNITED KINGDOM CONTRIBUTION TO THE FUNDS OF THE UNITED NATIONS
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR)
1.
Mr Blaker was grateful for Mr Murray's draft text and your amendments. He spoke to Mr Marten this afternoon.
2.
Mr Marten agreed that we may now make an offer of £1 million as part of our reply to the UNHCR's questionnaire.
3. Mr Marten said he believed it might well be possible to recover the UK's contribution to the second tranche of Community food aid to Vietnam. According to Mr Marten's information this was not yet in the form of food. Mr Marten said that if this did turn out to be possible he would be prepared to agree that a proportion of the money recovered could also be given to UNHCR: the amount to be agreed later.
4. Mr Blaker regards this as a satisfactory outcome. If Mr Marten is wrong we still have £1 million as an immediate additional contrib- ution to UNHCR, and £2.3 million worth of food aid which we might succeed in diverting to the refugees.
5. Mr Marten and Mr Blaker agreed that they would mention this at the Secretary of State's morning meeting on 26 June. Mr Marten said that the arrangements would need to be put to the Treasury in the form of an Agreed Minute. I should be grateful if action on this could be put in hand.
25 June 1979
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