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UKMIS GENEVA, PARIS CANBERRA, HONG KONG, HANOI
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MY TELNO
TO UKMIS GENEVA VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
1. You should also take action on the lines of
paragraph 3 of TUR: You should also inform the
Americans that we have given careful consideration to
the possibility of permitting Hong Kong to repatriate
boat people to Vietnam and to turn boats away to sea.
We have concluded on humanitarian grounds that neither
course could be justified. at present. This underlines
Hong Kong's difficulties reeds of diminishing
resulting firm
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resettlement opportunities. We hope we can count on the
US to take a more positive view of this problem and
continue to lead the world in shouldering the burden of
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