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(b) Community should help UNHCR secure implementation of 'orderly departure' agreement with Vietnam by, for example, using some of the suspended food aid allocation for 'departure camps' in Vietnam; (c) The Community should provide through UNHCR 20,000 tonnes of rice, 1,500 tonnes of dried skimmed milk and 10 mua (about £6.3 m) emergency aid for local purchase of additional food products in order to cover 50% of the needs of refugees in transit up to the end of 1979.
(d) Examination of possibility of assistance from the Community's Social Fund for member states taking refugees from South East Asia;
(e) Consideration of Community aid to developing countries which take refugees;
(f) Community should consider 'constructive participation' in discussion of aid to countries from which refugees originate (i.e. Vietnam).
26. The main points in the instructions sent to UKREP commenting on these Commission proposals are as follows:-
(a) need to remind the Commission that Community competence is limited to aid aspects; it is not for the Commission to take part in the political
discussions at Geneva.
(b) UK can agree that, until the end of 1979, Community should provide through UNHCR 50% of food needed for refugees in transit (i.e. those who have left Vietnam).
(c) We are not at this stage willing to agree to Community aid for refugees inside Vietnam, e.g. in 'departure camps'.
(d) There is no question at present of renewed Community food or project aid to Vietnam, although Community should be ready to review its attitude in the light of changes in the situation, particularly
in Vietnamese behaviour.
(e) We can agree to proposed food aid for distribution by UNHCR to Cambodian refugees in Vietnam provided Commission satisfy us that aid will reach right recipients.
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