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19 SEP 1985

CONFIDENTIAL

20571965

dr...

DESK OFFICER

REGISTRY

FROM:

A C Galsworthy

INDEX

PA

Action Taken

DATE:

19 September 1985

Dr Wilson

VISIT TO WASHINGTON: 5-8 OCTOBER

N/R

1. You asked in your minute of 16 September for briefing on

Hong Kong for your visit to Washington. I submit a short

checklist of Hong Kong points to make covering the JLG and Vietnamese refugees.

2. On Vietnamese refugees, the main point to

to raise with

the Americans is resettlement. The Home Office White Paper

in response to the SCORRI report will be published on 26 September.

instructing the Embassy in

Americans immediately after

We shall be

Washington to approach the

publication to press them to take additional numbers of

refugees from Hong Kong. We have also briefed the Secretary

of State to raise the matter when he meets Mr Shultz in New

In addition, we hope that Mr

York on 26 September.

to

Waddington will have raised the matter

the matter during his visit

Washington on 19/20 September, when he was due to meet Ambassador Douglas, US Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, and

Mr urcell, Director of the Bureau for Refugee programmes at

the State Department. It would be useful if you could also

raise the subject during your own visit.

-t

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CONFIDENTIAL

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