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22/8
1.
You may have seen the attached article in the
International Herald Tribune of 11 August, with its
provocative title "Thais 'Putting Gun to Head' of West on
Refugees". The useful background to the CCSDPT meeting,
given in Peter Bean's letter of 14 July, is of course not
available to many who will read only Branigin's more
sensationalist report. In this respect, the news of
Prasong's advancement reported in Bangkok telno 429 might
well be interpreted in some quarters as endorsement from
the very highest levels in Thailand for his apparently
increasingly hard line attitude to the refugees.
Enclosures-flag(s)..
12.
new.
The threat to close Khao-I-Dang is of course not
Its reappearance in the media might, however bring
applied to increase in the pressure resettlement countries.
If you are pressed, the guidance given in Stephen Nash's
teleletter to Peter Bean of 20 June remains broadly
some
Valid.
The latest figure for unresettled Vietnamese
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