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INFO HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE, LONDON,
YOUR TELNO 2 AND FCO TELNO 500 TO YOU: RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE
REFUGEES.
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1. WE AGREE THAT A VISIT BY WILSON WOULD BE USEFUL. PETERSEN (THE UNDER-SECRETARY IN THE AUSWARTIGES AMT RESPONSIBLE FOR ASIA), TO WHOM GOODALL MENTIONED THE IDEA ON 27 JULY (OUR TELNO 431 TO FCO), SAID THAT HE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SEE WILSON ON 8 AUGUST AND SUGGESTED THAT OTHER APPOINTMENTS MIGHT BE ARRANGED WITH THE . LEGAL DEPARTMENT OF THE AUSWARTIGES AMT (WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT QUESTIONS) AND WITH THE FEDERAL MINISTRY
OF THE INTERIOR.
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2. WE HAVE THEREFORE ARRANGED A PROGRAMME OF APPOINTMENTS IN THESE MINISTRIES AT UNDER-SECRETARY LEVEL ON 8 AUGUST. WE SUGGEST THAT WILSON MIGHT ARRIVE DURING THE AFTERNOON OF 7 AUGUST (THE FIRST FLIGHT FROM LONDON ON 8 AUGUST DOES NOT LAND AT COLOGNE/BONN UNTIL 1035). HE MIGHT RETURN TO LONDON ON FLIGHT BA 745 (ETD 1705) AFTER THE LAST OF HIS APPOINTMENTS ON 8 AUGUST. BOYD WOULD BE VERY HAPPY TO DINE HIM AND PUT HIM UP ON 7 AUGUST AND GOODALL WILL GIVE A LUNCH ON 8 AUGUST FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN HIS VISIT. WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR A FIRM INDICATION OF HIS TRAVEL PLANS AS
SOON AS POSSIBLE.
3. ONE QUESTION THAT MIGHT USEFULLY BE EXPLORED WHILE WILSON
IS HERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF OUR APPROACHING THE LAND GOVERNMENTS DIRECTLY TO ASK THAT HONG KONG BE ALLOCATED A FAIR SHARE OF THEIR RESETTLEMENT PLACES. PETERSEN INDICATED INFORMALLY THAT THIS WOULD BE WORTH DOING AND THAT THE AUSWARTIGES AMT WOULD HAVE NO OBJECTION.
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