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14 November 1979
Dear Clive
THIRD COMMITTEE:
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ITEM 83: REFUGEES
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FCO tel no 806: I enclose a copy of the Thai resolution as tabled today. As you will see it has been watered down as a result of negotiations with the Vietnamese in some important respects from the draft sent with my letter of 8 November to Miss Elliott in UND. Changes have been made in particular in operative paragraph 4.
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It was not possible before the deadline for tabling resolutions to get the Thais to agree to language referring to Hong Kong as suggested in TUR. However, I am still trying to get the ASEANS to agree to include an acceptable formulation on the lines suggested. It would also still be open to us to suggest some thing from the floor although we would have to bear in mind Chinese sensitivity.
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Only New Zealand among Western countries was prepared to cosponsor the resolution in its diluted form. There was some irritation among potential Western cosponsors (ie Australia, FRG and Austria) and Japan that the Thais seemed to be more con- cerned to placate the Vietnamese than to take account of their points of view. You may care to bear this in mind in relation to the question of cosponsorship even if our language on Hong Kong is accepted.
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