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AKK 24315 RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51 2 4 JUL 1980

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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

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6 GRAFTON

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PA

REGISTRY

Action Taken

FFICE 24/7

23rd July, 1980

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Jean Jack,

Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugees

in Belize

see

84

I told you that Baroness Vickers had rung enquiring about progress on a scheme she was interested in for the resettlement of 1,000 Vietnamese refugees in Belize. According to her, Mr. Price was very keen on this project. She said that the International Red Cross would be willing to finance the refugees during the period they were getting settled as farmers, but she was unable to get any response to her plan. She had no funds for the air passage from Hong Kong to Belize but I imagine UNHCR would produce these funds if the scheme were viable.

Bim Davies has sent me copies of Alan Payne's letter to John Sanders in Panama City dated 4 January this year, together with Sanders' enquiry. It looks to me that Baroness Vickers scheme is not the same as this one, but it could well be.

I must say the scheme sounds rather far fetched but I think it would be better for you or someone else in the FCO to respond to her rather than me. She seemed very sure that the International Red Cross would help and that the scheme was practical, so the only thing I could think of doing would be to get her in to explain just how she thought the Hong Kong Government or UNHCR could help.

R.D. Clift, Esq.,

Jauns

День

(D.C. Bray)

Hong Kong & General Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street,

SW1A 2AH.

c.c. Secretary for Security, HK.

TELEPHONE: 01-499 9821

Mr. Mice

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➤ SEAD

But pl. consult MCD & mony up with Payne's letter 4 Jas

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