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GINAAG

CONFIDENTIAL

SECRETARY OF STATE'S MEETING WITH GENSCHER, 12 APRIL

VIETNAMESE REFUGEES IN HONG KONG

Nor FINAL

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Points to Make

1.

Remain seriously concerned about Vietnamese refugee problem in Hong Kong. UK is accepting 500 more refugees,

Several friends and

and allies have also and Hong Kong 250. promised to accept more refugees from Hong Kong. pressing others, including EC partners, to do more.

Currently

2.

Grateful

for Germany's

contribution

So far

towards

resolving

this difficult

issue.

Appreciate

extent

of

Germany's refugee problems and that Federal Government need cooperation of Länder in arranging settlement of refugees.

3.

in Hong Kong But about 90 of the 9,100 refugees now have close relatives in Germany. Hope you may be able to encourage the Länder to accept at least those with relatives already in Germany. Anything you can do beyond this would

also be most welcome.

Defensive

4.

(If pressed

response on

Too early to

of other countries to UK

but overall response, assess

initiative.) encouraging that a number of countries (eg the Netherlands, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) have already agreed

to specific

Kong.

increases

in the

numbers they take from

Hong

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