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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

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The Secretary of State has looked briefly at Lord Belstead' Minute of 12 April and has asked if the recommendation and draft telegrams could be looked at again in the light of the optimistic remarks made by Mr Hartling's (UNHCR) about Hong Kong and Vietnamese refugees (Record attached),

2.

Lord Belstead would be grateful for further advice from the Department on this basis.

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20 April 1983

M A Arthur PS/Lord Belstead

Mr. McQuade

Mr Clift

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1. I have discussed this with SEAD and UND and agreed the general lines along which we

might take into account the remarks that passed between

Mr. Harthing and the keretary of State

2.9 attach a draft minute that we might to submit to Lood Beletead to send to the Secretary of State, together with revised telegrams of instruction.

I have not shown these drafts to SEAD and UNID as

comment

on

them before

we

circulate them.

you may

Tom Smith 244

wish to