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Mr McLaren

RECE

MKD 243/5

-1 SEP 1983

OFFICE

FROM:

Nigel Bowie

Far Eastern Department

DATE:

31 August 1988

Cc:

Mr Colvin, SEAD

Mr Sinton, SAD

Mr Footman, HKD

ASIA WORKING GROUP, 13 SEPTEMBER

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1. I submit a draft Cor eu about the forthcoming Asia

Working Group.

2.

Hong Kong Department tell me that the 12 are on the

point of agreeing a demarche about Vietnamese refugees,

which will be finalised in the next day or two and

delivered before the AWG takes place. There does not seem to be any need therefore to request the subject's

inclusion on the AWG agenda. You may prefer that I delay

sending this Coreu however until final agreement is

reached, in case there are any last minute hiccups.

should still be able to dispatch the telegram by the end

of the week.

We

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Nigel Savie

Nigel Bowie

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