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FM UKMIS GENEVA 061215Z JULY 79
ESKBY FCO 061688Z
TO IMMEDIATE FCO
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TELNO 2680F 36/7/79
INFO IMMEDIATE WASHINGTON PRIORITY JAKARTA KUALA LUMPUR BANGKOK
MANILA HONG KONG
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: SPECIAL PROCESSING CENTRES
HKK 243/1
1. THE AMERICANS HAVE BEEN GIVING THOUGHT TO MORE AMBITIOUS
PLANS FOR SPECIAL PROCESSING CENTRES.
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2. ACCORDING THE THIER MISSION HERE, VANCE TALKED TO THE
FOREIGN MINISTERS OF INDONESIA AND THE PHILLIPINES AND TO THE
PRIME MINISTERS OF THAILAND AND MALAYSIA ASKING THEM TO MAKE
ISLANDS AVAILABLE WITH A TOTAL CAPACITY OF 100,000. THEY HAD ALL
AGREED IN PRINCIPLE. PRESIDENT CARTER HAD TALKED TO THE
JAPANESE AND THE KOREANS WHO HAD AGREED TO PROVIDE THE FUNDS. THE
US AUTHORITIES BELIEVED THAT GALANG HAD THE SPACE AND WATER TO
HOLD 33,830 REFUGEES AND THAT TARA COULD TAKE 12,000. IT WAS SIMPLY A QUESTION OF PERSUADING THE INDONESIANS TO AGREE TO THE
EXPANSION AND THE OTHER ASEAN COUNTRIES TO MOVE QUICKLY.
3. THE US MISSION HAVE PUT THESE IDEAS TO HARTLING AND HAVE ASKED FOR A VERY EARLY DECISION AS TO WHETHER UNHCR COULD IN PRINCIPLE SET UP AND RUN SUCH CAMPS. AGAIN ACCORDING TO THEIR MISSION HERE, IF HARTLING REPLIES THAT HIS ORGANISATION CANNOT, THE UNITED STATES IS WILLING TO WORK OUT FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS WITH THE JAPANESE, THE GERMANS AND OTHERS, TO BUILD THE CAMPS, TO STAFF THEM AND THEN TO HAND THEM OVER TO THE UNHCR. THEY COULD START
BUILDING IMMEDIATELY ISLANDS HAD BEEN ALLOCATED.
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