TNAG-1789-FCO40-2549-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-general-1989 — Page 78

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DSR 11 (Revised Sept 85)

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DRAFT: minute/letter/teleletter/despatch/note

FROM:

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Reference

Miss R J Spencer

DEPARTMENT:

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Your Reference

BUILDING:

ROOM NO:

Copies to:

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

TO:

The Hon M A Pakenham

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UKREP Brussels

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CAVEAT

In Confidence

SUBJECT: VIETNAMESE BOAT PEOPLE IN HONG KONG

1.

We are sending you a telegram of instructions to

approach DGI about their policy towards repatriating

Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong who fail to

satisfy the criteria for refugee states.

2. I enclose the paper foreseen in that telegram. It

long, but I expect that you will find the background

useful. If you have any queries, you might like to tall

to David Colvin, Head of SEAD, who had a bilateral meeti

with a Vietnamese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

on this issue in Geneva on 15 December and

conversant with its ins and outs.

is fully

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