TNAG-0894-FCO40-1104-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 210

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Boxd People

MY TELNO 142:

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

Copies to:-

1. The Japanese Embassy have informed us that theċe Government wish to withdraw the proposal in paragraph 3(c) of TUR, that Vietnam should be asked to accept independent

observers, eg. from the ICRC, and that they were no longer preparing a paper on possible ways of putting pressure on

the Vietnamese.

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