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HKK 243 | 10 DOWNING STREET
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THE PRIME MINISTER
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30 July 1979
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Thank you for your letter of 18 July and for your support for the initiative the Government took in calling for the international meeting which was held at Geneva last weekend to discuss the problem of Indo-Chinese refugees.
You may be interested to see the enclosed copy of the speech which the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary made at the international meeting at Geneva on 20 July. This includes an announcement of the additional places which Britain has agreed to make available for resettlement and of the extra funds we propose to provide over the next
12 months.
I am glad to say that the Geneva meeting resulted in. a massive increase in offers of resettlement places, from 125,000 to 260,000, and in new pledges of additional fin- ancial support for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees amounting to U.S. $190 million.
It also demonstrated the strength of international concern about all aspects of the refugee problem, including the plight of Cambodia, and secured undertakings from Vietnam to suspend for a time the export of boat people, and to discuss measures for the safe and orderly departure of those of its citizens who wish to leave.
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