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for Refugees

(UNHCR) who

maintain

detailed records of

such information. UNHCR are also preparing a list of the

name s and personal details of the refugees concerned,

together with a list of unaccompanied minors

(numbering

about 100), whose cases we hope you may also be able to

consider. The lists will be passed direct to

to the French

which we understand has already been

Consulate-General,

instructed to re-examine relevant cases. (Our Embassy in

Marchand, of M.

Paris were informed of this by M.

at the Quai d'Orsay.

Dumas' Cabinet.) We shall also ask the Embassy to give a

copy of the list to your officials at

I am most grateful to you for your interest in

The British Government fully appreciates

matter.

this

the

large Indo-Chinese refugee burden which France has

shouldered in recent years, and well understands the

difficulties that this must have imposed оп the French

Government. We would nevertheless be very grateful for

anything y ou

can do to assist with the resettlement of

some of the refugees who are now in Hong Kong.