TNAG-1789-FCO40-2549-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-general-1989 — Page 228

CODE 18-77

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Counsellor (A)

HKD 243/5

JV 1988

CC: PS

H of C

Duty Officer Miss Ramsey

SSO

SEAD, FCO

HKD, FCO

PA

DEMONSTRATION AT CHANCERY :

AT

1.

VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE

Please refer to Miss Ramsey's minute of 28 October. The attached letter addressed to the Ambassador would seem to confirm that there will be a demonstration outside Chancery on Saturday 5 November. The demonstrators will wish to hand in a message.

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2. Subject to your views and those of Embassy copy recipients, I would not recommend that we acknowledge this letter. But perhaps the duty officer should be on hand to receive the demonstrators' petition.

3 November 1988

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