TNAG-1787-FCO40-2547-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-general-1988 — Page 135

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FOREIGE SEC. MADRID PRESS

FOREIGN SECRETARY (COMTD):

-14-

The point 1 wanted just to add is that one report

I think

on the World Service on Tuesday of this week

suggested that the

Soviet Union had rejected the approach that I had made inviting them

to help in discouraging the outflow of refugees.

in fact the reaction.

Now that was not

It was a piece of inaccurate sub-editing in

London that was corrected within a couple of bours.

They listened

with interest to what I bad to say as, of course, did the Chinese

and the Vietnamese.

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TOTAL F.18

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