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with the President of the ICRC, gives us an opportunity in the first instance to deal with the issues which arise without running the political risks which more elaborate arrangements under the UN umbrella might run. Provided that these Geneva arrangements can be used effectively, the pressure for undesirable changes in New York can be more easily resisted. This is not to suggest that arrange- ments in Geneva will necessarily suffice, but rather to urge that they be taken as a practical point of departure in whatever further study is made in New York and in capitals.
We should prepare accordingly for the next meeting of the Executive Committee of UNHCR in October, and for the report which the High Commissioner will subsequently make to the General Assembly.
26 I am sending copies of this despatch to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Governor of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in New York, the European Community, the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and to Her Majesty's Ambassadors in Washington and Rome.
I am My Lord
Yours faithfully
helen Verstall
PHR Marshall
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