TNAG-0894-FCO40-1104-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 106

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CONFIDENTIAL

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P.A. no gran

FM WASHINGTON 172155Z JUL 79

TO ROUTINE HONG KONG

TELEGRAM NO 20 OF 17 JULY

AND TO F C 0.

HONG KONG TELNO 996 TO THE FCO: AND HONG KONG TELNO 21 TO WASHINGTON

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

1. NEITHER WE NOR THE AMERICANS HAVE RECEIVED THE PAPERS REFERRED

TO IN TURS, BUT WE INTERPRET PARAGRAPH 2 OF FIRST TUR AS APPROVAL FOR THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO PROCEED WITH THEIR ''MITE PAPER ** AND IN VIEW OF THEIR DEADLINE OF 17 JULY, WE HAVE SPOKEN

TO THE AMERICANS ACCORDINGLY,

HENDERSON

FILES SEAD

HK & GD

UND

NEWS D M & VD PS PS/LPS

MR FERGUSSON

MR FRETWELL

ADDITIONAL DISTN

BOAT PEOPLE

FED

EESD

N AM D

SAD

EID

PUSD OID

IPD

PS/MR HURD PS/MR BLAKER

PS/PUS

SIR A DUFF ·

SIR A PARSONS

MR CORTAZZI

MR MURRAY

MR STRATTON

LORD NG LENNOX

MR BULLARD

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