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VIETNAMESE REFUGEES

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The Hong Kong Government have now commented on the amendments we suggested to their draft guidance telegram for use by HKG representatives overseas.

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They have accepted most of our suggestions. However, there are two points to which we attach importance and with which they do not agree: deletion of the reference to the absence of a UK resettlement quota (paragraph 8), and insertion of an extra paragraph on repatriation. I attach a draft teleletter suggesting ways in which these two points could possibly be covered in spite of Hong Kong's objections. SEAD concur.

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Is not the ruling out of forcible rapetration already public Knowledge?

thought we hand to MPs & that there had been something subsequent to the LEECO questions? In any case, if asked here, we would say it had been ruled out,

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