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Boat Refugees

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HONG KONG TELNO 111 TO FCO: VIETNAMESE BOAT REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

We are very concerned about the position revealed in

para.l of TUR. It is essential that the US offtake of

be

Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong maintained at a high

level if any real reduction in the numbers there is to be

We therefore place great importance on the

achieved.

American programme.

2. Please now therefore approach both Ambassador Palmeiri

and Newsome as suggested in para.5 of TUR, drawing on

that telegram and my telnos 62 and 63 to Bonn.

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