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J24.282

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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

1. I should be grateful for your comments on paragraph 3 UKMis Geneva's telegram Number 71 copy attached.

2. I can not see the Chinese agreeing to any suggestion that they should hold Vietnamese refugees. Indeed, I think it would be unwise to suggest it to them.

3.

I have had the UKMis telegram copied to Peking.

23 February 1982

Is Willigreson

Зовтатии.

www.

P J Williamson

Hong Kong and General Department K 242

233 4439

I have not been able to consult past papers

but

a friori

1

agree

with the first sentence of your second paragraph.

Reking are better placed to comment.

Mox

24/ii.