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Hong Kong must be our main concern. The Governor has
set out the issues in his latest telegram, No 910. The American line is clear: they will not take more from Hong Kong unless
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see Hong Kong telegram No 890. Unless the Americans do more, no-one else will. This is a vital argument for
declaring the largest possible figure for the UK and allotting most (but not all) of it to Hong Kong. Presentationally I still think we should keep the UK and Hong Kong quotas separate.
Most of the Nine are doing more, though it is fair to say that, with the exception of the French, they started from a low base. You will have experienced the mood in Tokyo.
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Finance
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Provided we take substantially more refugees, Peter Blaker and I think we can hold our position by offering UNHCR another £1m, the maximum in Neil Marten's view that the aid programme can afford. If our resettlement offer has to be low, then the
£1m will be regarded as much too niggardly. However there are
still difficulties with Treasury Ministers over the £1m Peter Blaker's telegram to you in Tokyo, No 304. Neil Marten will
try to satisfy the Financial Secretary that he can make an offsetting cut elsewhere in the aid programme (we are meeting to discuss aid programme cuts on 9 July). But you may need to stress to the Prime Minister that this contribution is politically
essential.
Representation in Geneva
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We shall also need to decide who should lead for us in
Geneva. Waldheim has asked for Ministerial level representation. Peter Blaker will be available, as you wish, and you may think that this would be appropriate. The meeting is not the one we
wanted in view of Waldheim's stipulation that it should concentrate
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