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TEUNO 343 OF 29 JULY 1777
FOLLOWING FOR RIDGEON, GIC
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SPEECH BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS, THE RT PON THE LORD CARRINGTON, AT CENEVA ON FRIDAY 23 JULY, 1977
MR SECRETARY-GENERAL, HIGH COMMISSIONER, EXCELLENCIES:
1 SHOULD LIKE FIRST TO EXPRESS MY GOVERNMENT'S GRATITUDE TO YOU, FR SECRETARY-GENERAL, FOR INVITING US HERE TODAY FOLLOWING MY
PRIME MINSITER'S APPEAL ON 33 PAY. I PAY TRIBUTE AS WELL TO THE
FIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REF UCEES, WHOSE WORK HAS PELPED US TO
FOCUS ON THE STARK REALITIES OF THIS UNPRECEDENTED CRISIS.
NOT IN THIS GENERATION PAVE SUCH VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE RISKED
DEATH AND DESTITUTION TO LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY IN THE HOPE ́
OF FINDING REFUGE ABROAD, YOU HAVE SEEN THE MISERY OF THOSE WHO ARE WAITING IN THAILAND AFTER CROSSING THE FRONTIERS OF LAOS
AND KAMPUCHEA IN THEIR TENS OF THOUSANDS. I HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM HONG KONG, HERE OVER SIXTY-SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE FOUND TEMPORARY SANCTUARY IN THAT TINY AND OVER-CROWDED TERRITORY AFTER
PERILOUS JOURNEYS IN THEIR UNSEAWORTHY CRAFT.
WE CAN HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THE SCALE OF HUMAN SUFFERING LIVOLVED.
I HAVE SEEN IT FOR MYSELF, OUR AIMS AT THIS CONFERENCE MUST
RE TO FIND WAYS TO ALLEVIATE THAT SUFFERING: FISTLY BY GETTING
THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM TO EXERCISE A HUMANE POLICY IN RESPECT
OF ITS OWN PEOPLE AND SECONDLY BY FINDING WAYS OF SHARING
THROUGHOUT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY THE UNFAIR BURDEN WHICH
IS NOW BEING BORNE DY HONG KONG AND THE COUNTRIES OF SOUTH EAST
ASIA. E DO NOT THINK THAT THIS PURPOSE CAN BE SERVED BY RAKING
OVER PAST HISTORY.
IT HAS, HOVEVER, BEEN ALLEGED THAT THE REFUGEES ARE BOURGEOIS DROPOUTS WHO CANNOT ADJUST TO THE NO VIETNAMESE
PEALITY: THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE TO LEAVE: THAT THE LEFT ILLEGALLY
THAT IT IS ALL THE CONSEQUENCE OF COLONIALISM OR A PLOT OF THE
WESTERN CAPITALISTS AND THE CHINESE.
/MR SECRETARY-GENERAL,
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