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FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1988
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ALAN CHAN (MORNING NEWS): WHAT WILL THE UK GOVERNMENT DO THE VIETNAM GOVERNMENT DID NOT CO-OPERATE IN THE SOLVING OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEMS?
LORD GLENARTHUR: WELL, WE HAVE TO CONTINUE, AS WE ARE DOING AT THE MOMENT, ANYHOW, BEFORE WE GET TO THAT STAGE, TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO INCREASE THE INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT TO MEND THEIR WAYS. WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED TO DO THAT.
WE HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR SOME TIME AND WHEN I WAS LAST HERE IN SEPTEMBER, THE LAST SUBSTANTIVE VISIT I MADE, I ASKED OUR AMBASSADOR FROM HANOI TO GO BACK - HE WAS HERE AT THE TIME
TO GO BACK TO HANOI WITH A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT. WELL, THAT MAY NOT HAVE HAD ALL THE DESIRED EFFECT. SINCE THEN A NUMBER OF EXCHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE. I HAVE DESCRIBED TO YOU HOW SIR GEOFFREY HOWE ONLY VERY RECENTLY SPOKE TO THE VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER AND TALKED TO HIM ABOUT IT AT GREAT LENGTH.
SORT
APPLY THE VIETNAMESE WHAT MIGHT
YET.
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE HAVE GOT TO OF PRESSURE WHICH WILL... ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE AUTHORITIES TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS LET'S NOT THINK OF HAPPEN IF THEY DO NOT. THE FACT IS WE HAVEN'T GOT TO THAT POINT WE MUST MAKE SURE IT JOLLY WELL WORKS,
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