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LETTER
DRAFT:
minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note
FROM:
Secretary of State
DEPARTMENT:
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The Honourable Alexander M Haig Jr
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..In Confidence
Your letter of 8 February about pirate attacks on
Vietnamese boat refugees reached me towards the end of
my tour of the five ASEAN countries.
This tour brought home to me very forcibly how much
suffering has been inflicted by the policies of the
Government of Hanoi on the peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia
in the last few years. I was pleased to note how much
has been done by regional Governments, by the West in
general and by your own Government in particular to meet
the humanitarian challenge posed by the flight of
refugees from the countries of the Indo-Chinese peninsula.
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I agree that the attacks by pirates on refugees fleeing
by boat form part of this challenge. I am glad to tell
you, therefore, that we shall shortly be informing the
UNHCR of our intention to double our initial pledge to
£110,000.
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