BY BAG
布政司署
香港下亞
畢道
* OUR REF: SCR 3/3571/74 B
來函檔號 YOUur Ref.:
R N Peirce Esq
PEKING
CONFIDENTIAL
До
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HKL. 02016. f ник.
0 2 JUN1981
DESK OFFICEM INDEX
PA
Action Take
HONG KONG
ay 1981
Cha or
pa
J26.5
PEOPLE'S DAILY CORRESPONDENT IN HONG KONG
Hal Meinheit of the US Consulate-General told me a couple of days ago that he had had an interesting meeting with the People's Daily correspondents here. I have not yet met either of them. Hal also sent me a copy of a confidential biographical note he had prepared on the Chief Correspondent, Zhou Yizhi, You may find this of some use in reading any stories which he files from Hong Kong. We will obviously be interested in the extent to which he uses Hong Kong for reporting on Vietnam. If I do meet him, you can be sure that I will urge on him the usefulness of more Vietnamese refugees going back to China. On that subject could I also ask you to contact Jacques Mouchet of the UNHCR office. The local UNHCR office here recently told me that they have had no reply to a list of some 121 Vietnamese refugees here whom they had suggested might be resettled in China. These are direct arrivals here but who may have the bulk of their close family members resident in China. As long as there is no reply from the Chinese, UNHCR feel inhibited about passing their files for other resettlement countries to consider.
cc w/enc
(I C Orr)
AR Paul Esq FED FCO RF Wye Esq RS FES FCO PJ Williamson Esq HK&GD FCO
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.