TNAG-1794-FCO40-2554-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-refugees-repatriation--including-Opera-1988 — Page 63

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In essence our aim will be:

(i)

to record firmly at the outset that we are dealing with a

problem of Vietnam's own making which it is for Vietnam

to resolve;

(ii)

(iii)

to focus thereafter on the practicalities of preventing

the outflow of Vietnamese and facilitating their return

under acceptable conditions;

so far as possible to resist Vietnamese attempts to give

aid a central place in the discussions and to use it as a

condition of progress over repatriation.

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